<?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[There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13771]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teaching brings out innate powers, and proper training braces the intellect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teaching brings out innate powers, and proper training braces the intellect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One swallowe proveth not that summer is neare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58436]]></link><description><![CDATA[One swallowe proveth not that summer is neare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with the window shut, and a woman who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with the window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45432]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees that moves you--if, being a figure painter, it is love of human beauty, and human soul that moves you--if, being a flower or animal painter, it is love, and wonder, and delight in petal and in limb that move you, then the Spirit is upon you, and the earth is yours, and the fullness thereof.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE  Persons that are well affected to religion, that receive instructions of piety ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6945]]></link><description><![CDATA[THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE  Persons that are well affected to religion, that receive instructions of piety with pleasure and satisfaction, often wonder how it comes to pass that they make no greater progress in that religion which they so much admire. Now the reason of it is this: it is because religion lives only in their head, but something else has possession of their heart; and therefore they continue from year to year mere admirers and praisers of piety, without ever coming up to the reality and perfection of its precepts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To create an improved new habitat in a remote area where the prairie dog can thrive without any human interference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38594]]></link><description><![CDATA[To create an improved new habitat in a remote area where the prairie dog can thrive without any human interference.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was pleased that we came out ready to play. We played well together and played with a lot of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31287]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was pleased that we came out ready to play. We played well together and played with a lot of intensity. We pressured them really hard early and got some turnovers to get that good lead at the beginning of the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think gas prices have had a definite impact on people who do not have a specific destination planned in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40828]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think gas prices have had a definite impact on people who do not have a specific destination planned in advance, ... A lot of the fall foliage travelers are seniors. Because their budgets are impacted more dramatically, I don't think they'll be traveling as much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bee not idle and you shall not bee longing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bee not idle and you shall not bee longing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62230]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resentment is one burden that is incompatible with your success. Always be the first to forgive; and forgive yourself first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resentment is one burden that is incompatible with your success. Always be the first to forgive; and forgive yourself first always.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54238]]></link><description><![CDATA[My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This (assassination) is against our principles and my principles, and I would never do such a thing in my life, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29894]]></link><description><![CDATA[This (assassination) is against our principles and my principles, and I would never do such a thing in my life, ... What do we achieve? I think what happened targeted Syria.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bravest battle that ever was fought; Shall I tell you where and when?  On the maps of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43206]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bravest battle that ever was fought; Shall I tell you where and when?  On the maps of the world you will find it not;   It was fought by the mothers of men.   - Joaquin Miller (pseudonym of Cincinnatus Hiner Miller),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22790]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air. thanks to Michele Rousseau -T. Starr King.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64629]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let others tell of storms and showers, I'll only mark your sunny hours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let others tell of storms and showers, I'll only mark your sunny hours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty:one of imaginations most precious possessions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty:one of imaginations most precious possessions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teaching is useless unless you can learn from your students. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teaching is useless unless you can learn from your students.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis--once that crisis can be recognized ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis--once that crisis can be recognized and understood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All mass movements generate in their adherents a readiness to die and a proclivity for united action; all of them, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56858]]></link><description><![CDATA[All mass movements generate in their adherents a readiness to die and a proclivity for united action; all of them, irrespective of the doctrine they preach and the program they project, breed fanaticism, enthusiasm, fervent hope, hatred and intolerance; all of them are capable of releasing a powerful flow of activity in certain departments of life; all of them demand blind faith and singlehearted allegiance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very important to have the right clothing to exercise in. If you throw on an old T-shirt or sweats, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14480]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very important to have the right clothing to exercise in. If you throw on an old T-shirt or sweats, it's not inspiring for your workout.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65842]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43512]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're the party that wants to see an America in which people can still get rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45597]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're the party that wants to see an America in which people can still get rich.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facts do not "speak for themselves." They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Facts do not "speak for themselves." They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11186]]></link><description><![CDATA[To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For when two Join in the same adventure, one perceives  Before the other how they ought to act;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53963]]></link><description><![CDATA[For when two Join in the same adventure, one perceives  Before the other how they ought to act;   While one alone, however prompt, resolves    More tardily and with a weaker will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Financial services are not excluded; they are simply not yet included. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Financial services are not excluded; they are simply not yet included.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Regulatory modernization would keep states in charge of regulating insurance, but create a set of federal standards that would eliminate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Regulatory modernization would keep states in charge of regulating insurance, but create a set of federal standards that would eliminate price controls and controls over policy forms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies:  Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26374]]></link><description><![CDATA[With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies:  Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries,   Bidding her earliest child arise;    March!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're trying to recreate habitat, you do it in hopes the amphibians can use it, and you have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33807]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're trying to recreate habitat, you do it in hopes the amphibians can use it, and you have to manage it in hopes you keep the bullfrog from being successful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He didn't quite manage to get his leg over.' - about Ian Botham, though admittedly on the cricket pitch at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38999]]></link><description><![CDATA[He didn't quite manage to get his leg over.' - about Ian Botham, though admittedly on the cricket pitch at the time]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let it rise! let it rise, till it meet the sum in his coming; let the earliest light of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let it rise! let it rise, till it meet the sum in his coming; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and the parting day linger and play on its summit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43981]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. As long as this exists, and it certainly always will, I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fate of a nation has often depended on the food or bad digestion of a prime minister. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19340]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fate of a nation has often depended on the food or bad digestion of a prime minister.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19340</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[Now my soul hath elbow-room. -King John. Act v. Sc. 7. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now my soul hath elbow-room. -King John. Act v. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Below the current, the economy has been improving far more than the market reality would indicate. And all things considered, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Below the current, the economy has been improving far more than the market reality would indicate. And all things considered, the market is really behaving quite well today [Thursday]. But there's still tremendous anxiety; the market is held hostage to individual corporate news and accountability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So wise so young, they say, do never live long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61739]]></link><description><![CDATA[So wise so young, they say, do never live long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good finds good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good finds good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quite frankly, [the bid process] is as intense as any pursuit of a telecom contract I've ever been through representing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quite frankly, [the bid process] is as intense as any pursuit of a telecom contract I've ever been through representing BellSouth,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33652</guid></item></channel></rss>