<?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[Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and he would ask the number of the steps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and he would ask the number of the steps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not arrogant when fortune smiles, or dejected when she frowns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not arrogant when fortune smiles, or dejected when she frowns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52036]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Optimism is the opium of the people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Optimism is the opium of the people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The linden, in the fervors of July, Hums with a louder concert. When the wind  Sweeps the broad forest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23558]]></link><description><![CDATA[The linden, in the fervors of July, Hums with a louder concert. When the wind  Sweeps the broad forest in its summer prime,   As when some master-hand exulting sweeps    The keys of some great organ, ye give forth     The music of the woodland depths, a hymn      Of gladness and of thanks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The roads we take are more important than the goals we announce. Decisions determine destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11609]]></link><description><![CDATA[The roads we take are more important than the goals we announce. Decisions determine destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Methought little space 'tween those hills intervened, But nearer,--more lofty,--more shaggy they seemed.  The clouds o'er their summits they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Methought little space 'tween those hills intervened, But nearer,--more lofty,--more shaggy they seemed.  The clouds o'er their summits they calmly did rest,   And hung on the ether's invisible breast;    Than the vapours of earth they seemed purer, more bright,--     Oh! could they be clouds? 'Twas the necklace of night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an excellent deal for us because Pedro gives us more options in midfield and brings with him experience ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35076]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an excellent deal for us because Pedro gives us more options in midfield and brings with him experience in European competition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take heed of mad folks in a narrow place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take heed of mad folks in a narrow place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too many of us have a Christian vocabulary rather than a Christian experience. We think we are doing our duty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too many of us have a Christian vocabulary rather than a Christian experience. We think we are doing our duty when we're only talking about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever,  A thing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13307]]></link><description><![CDATA[What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever,  A thing that answers, but hath not a thought   As lasting but as senseless as a stone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61214]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is tobe full of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22449]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is tobe full of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours;  Only in our blindness   We gather thorns ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23757]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours;  Only in our blindness   We gather thorns for flowers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aldo Leopold, the early 20th century's Henry David Thoreau, said that we should think like a mountain, with a sense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aldo Leopold, the early 20th century's Henry David Thoreau, said that we should think like a mountain, with a sense of permanence and a long view. At the beginning of the 21st century, we are at a peak of human power, wealth and information... We need to look back at our wonderful natural and human heritage, and cherish and protect the abundant values to be found there. We need to look out to the sides and see other parts of the world that need our help and can provide good ideas to go forward... We need to look ahead to be certain that our actions of today will make the world a better and richer and more varied place for our grandchildren and their grandchildren.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The total package. You get your full money's worth with a guy like that. He plays a lot, he goes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30524]]></link><description><![CDATA[The total package. You get your full money's worth with a guy like that. He plays a lot, he goes out there and doesn't back down. He blocks, he catches the ball, he runs with the ball - he does everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30524</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[What you would not have done to yourselves, never do unto others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51216]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you would not have done to yourselves, never do unto others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63313]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's the humour of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20065]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's the humour of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a rite of passage. He was dad's right-hand man . . . he was just doing things like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41611]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a rite of passage. He was dad's right-hand man . . . he was just doing things like that. We made a conscious decision for him to be there to help.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Italia! O Italia! thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty, which became  A funeral dower of present woes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Italia! O Italia! thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty, which became  A funeral dower of present woes and past,   On thy sweet brow is sorrow plough'd by shame,    And annals graved in characters of flame.     [It., Italia, Italia, O tu cui feo la sorte,      Dono infelice di bellezza, ond' hai       Funesta dote d'infiniti guai        Che in fronte scritti per gran doglia porte.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52522]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to go along with him.   - Francis Bacon,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know coach's record. I don't know what everybody else's record is. But we're all cheering for her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34665]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know coach's record. I don't know what everybody else's record is. But we're all cheering for her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23063]]></link><description><![CDATA[The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An old mans staffe is the rapper of deaths doore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49129]]></link><description><![CDATA[An old mans staffe is the rapper of deaths doore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you be a lover of instruction, you will be well instructed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58751]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you be a lover of instruction, you will be well instructed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it. - "Modern Maturity Magazine, Jan/Feb 1995".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2913]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4270]]></link><description><![CDATA[If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58827]]></link><description><![CDATA[The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're always looking for a way to enhance service. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33428]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're always looking for a way to enhance service.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They fail, and they alone, who have not striven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21197]]></link><description><![CDATA[They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wine makes all sorts of creatures at table. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wine makes all sorts of creatures at table.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We act as though comfort and luxury were the chiefrequirements of life, when all that we need to make us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22385]]></link><description><![CDATA[We act as though comfort and luxury were the chiefrequirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is somethingto be enthusiastic about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, at a certain time, in pleasant mood, He tried the luxury of doing good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, at a certain time, in pleasant mood, He tried the luxury of doing good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is becoming impossible for those who mix with their fellow men to believe that the grace of God is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7472]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is becoming impossible for those who mix with their fellow men to believe that the grace of God is distributed denominationally.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know why people think that somehow the First Amendment applies to network television. It doesn't. It's like the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16649]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know why people think that somehow the First Amendment applies to network television. It doesn't. It's like the way free speech doesn't apply at work. You can't just walk into your boss' office and say 'you're a fuckface and I'm gonna go back to work now.' No, you're not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ascension He has gone away, the Well-Beloved,  For our sake! He is risen, the Well-Beloved,  For our sake! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ascension He has gone away, the Well-Beloved,  For our sake! He is risen, the Well-Beloved,  For our sake! He has prayed, the Well-Beloved,  For our sake! He has spoken, He has sung, The Word was with God. Praises of the Father, Substance of the Father, The stamp and issue forever, In Love! Word of Love!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hang sorrow, care 'll kill a cat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hang sorrow, care 'll kill a cat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The benediction of these covering heavens Fall on their heads like dew, for they are worthy  To inlay heaven ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4322]]></link><description><![CDATA[The benediction of these covering heavens Fall on their heads like dew, for they are worthy  To inlay heaven with stars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18494]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you marry a man who cheats on his wife, you'll be married to a man who cheats on his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5814]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you marry a man who cheats on his wife, you'll be married to a man who cheats on his wife.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14027]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14027</guid></item></channel></rss>