<?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 wanted to do more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41715]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted to do more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21047]]></link><description><![CDATA[For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who among us hasn't envied a cat's ability to ignore the cares of daily life and to relax completely? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who among us hasn't envied a cat's ability to ignore the cares of daily life and to relax completely?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've spent, I think, close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin cans into pure gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64839]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've spent, I think, close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin cans into pure gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12305]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is that economic competition is the very opposite of competition in the animal kingdom. It is not a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15723]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is that economic competition is the very opposite of competition in the animal kingdom. It is not a competition in the grabbing off of scarce nature-given supplies, as it is in the animal kingdom. Rather, it is a competition in the positive creation of new and additional wealth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things at the worst will cease, or e'en climb upward To what they were before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things at the worst will cease, or e'en climb upward To what they were before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Distance is a great promoter of admiration! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Distance is a great promoter of admiration!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumb-bells? To dig a vineyard is a worthier exercise for men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumb-bells? To dig a vineyard is a worthier exercise for men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099  These things I did not see by the help of man, nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099  These things I did not see by the help of man, nor by the letter, though they are written in the letter; but I saw them in the light of the Lord Jesus Christ, and by his immediate Spirit and power, as did the Holy men of God, by whom the Holy Scriptures were written. Yet I had no slight esteem of the Holy Scriptures; they were very precious to me, for I was in that spirit by which they were given forth; and what the Lord opened in me, I afterwards found was agreeable to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He Just Can't Quit Her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35338]]></link><description><![CDATA[He Just Can't Quit Her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who teach the mind its proper face to scan, And hold the faithful mirror up to man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who teach the mind its proper face to scan, And hold the faithful mirror up to man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the devil drives, needs must. (Needs must when the devil drives.) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12147]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the devil drives, needs must. (Needs must when the devil drives.)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope they find (whoever is responsible) in the next 24 hours, so I can get rid of them. I'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40746]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope they find (whoever is responsible) in the next 24 hours, so I can get rid of them. I'd rather have an empty apartment than a bad tenant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just random stuff that people need done, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just random stuff that people need done,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You often ask me, Priscus, what sort of person I should be, if I were to become suddenly rich and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61410]]></link><description><![CDATA[You often ask me, Priscus, what sort of person I should be, if I were to become suddenly rich and powerful. Who can determine what would be his future conduct? Tell me, if you were to become a lion, what sort of a lion would you be?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wondrous is this great, blue ship that sails around the mighty sun and joy to everyone that rides along. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wondrous is this great, blue ship that sails around the mighty sun and joy to everyone that rides along.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people choose not to donate their services because they believe that it somehow devalues them by "giving them away." ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people choose not to donate their services because they believe that it somehow devalues them by "giving them away." In truth, there is nothing that demonstrates the value of your skills more than putting them to good use for a cause you believe in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know it's silly to say it, but I love 29th Street and I love Jack Ruby. Moonstruck I liked, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32622]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know it's silly to say it, but I love 29th Street and I love Jack Ruby. Moonstruck I liked, but my character was troublesome to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28151]]></link><description><![CDATA[I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They pay me to practice. Sundays I play for free. (explaining his contractual obligations) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57653]]></link><description><![CDATA[They pay me to practice. Sundays I play for free. (explaining his contractual obligations)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/645]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great is the Tailor, but not the greatest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great is the Tailor, but not the greatest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very easy to say everything is outrageous. But if you have an oil company that's setting up its own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33231]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very easy to say everything is outrageous. But if you have an oil company that's setting up its own environmental department, for example, what do you do? Do you spit in its eye, or do you make sure that what they do actually has some substance?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To sell a bargain well is as cunning as fast and loose. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55485]]></link><description><![CDATA[To sell a bargain well is as cunning as fast and loose. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't leave if I thought that the sky was falling, ... I think the foundation is there. The institution ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29249]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't leave if I thought that the sky was falling, ... I think the foundation is there. The institution is set up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who would eat the kernel, must crack the shell. [Lat., Qui e nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nucem.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44056]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who would eat the kernel, must crack the shell. [Lat., Qui e nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nucem.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't read lips unless they're touching mine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23853]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't read lips unless they're touching mine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never frown...even when you're sad you never know when someone is falling in love with your smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never frown...even when you're sad you never know when someone is falling in love with your smile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[never let my right hand know what my left hand does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34583]]></link><description><![CDATA[never let my right hand know what my left hand does.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Watch your thoughts, for they become words.Watch your words, for they become actions.Watch your actions, for they become habits.Watch your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Watch your thoughts, for they become words.Watch your words, for they become actions.Watch your actions, for they become habits.Watch your habits, for they become character.Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've just got to get better by using these games. Personally, me, yeah, I want to get those big games. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37599]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've just got to get better by using these games. Personally, me, yeah, I want to get those big games. I liked those games in Maui. I'm still going to play hard against Quinnipiac, but next week we start a bigger, real-deal season.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and hislimitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and hislimitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because,you see, humor is truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Her inertia did not sit well with some in her immediate circle. They accused Ms. Apple of being lazy, crazy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34904]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Her inertia did not sit well with some in her immediate circle. They accused Ms. Apple of being lazy, crazy and unproductive, she said.] It really hurt a couple of close relationships of mine, ... It infuriated me because they couldn't believe that when I'm sitting and thinking that's how I work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19256]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After all, tomorrow is another day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59460]]></link><description><![CDATA[After all, tomorrow is another day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a lot of factors we don't know definite answers to yet, to know whether this is OK or not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40986]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a lot of factors we don't know definite answers to yet, to know whether this is OK or not OK.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Till taught by pain, Men really know not what good water's worth;  If you had been in Turkey or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Till taught by pain, Men really know not what good water's worth;  If you had been in Turkey or in Spain,   Or with a famish'd boat's-crew had your berth,    Or in the desert heard the camel's bell,     You'd wish yourself where Truth is--in a well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear can sometimes be a useful emotion.  For instance, let's say you're an astronaught on the moon and you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear can sometimes be a useful emotion.  For instance, let's say you're an astronaught on the moon and you fear that your partner has been turned into Dracula. The next time he goes out for the moon pieces, wham!, you just slam the door behind him and blast off. He might call you on the radio and say he's not Dracula, but you just say, "Think again, bat man.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man always travels along precipices. His truest obligation is to keep his balance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man always travels along precipices. His truest obligation is to keep his balance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64153]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15184]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The twilight is sad and cloudy, The wind blows wild and free,  And like the wings of sea-birds  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59925]]></link><description><![CDATA[The twilight is sad and cloudy, The wind blows wild and free,  And like the wings of sea-birds   Flash the white caps of the sea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We felt that if we could do it at the right price, the cleaning robot would be embraced by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32068]]></link><description><![CDATA[We felt that if we could do it at the right price, the cleaning robot would be embraced by the masses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty can not be preserved without a general knowledge among the people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty can not be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471   Be not angry that you cannot make others as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471   Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7877</guid></item></channel></rss>