<?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[He that said it was not good for man to be alone, placed the celibate amongst the inferior states of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26553]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that said it was not good for man to be alone, placed the celibate amongst the inferior states of perfection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58596]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no sentence that's too short in the eyes of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21695]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no sentence that's too short in the eyes of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They now say this was about Ford 'refraining from choosing sides' by supporting gay groups. No. AFA said this was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38657]]></link><description><![CDATA[They now say this was about Ford 'refraining from choosing sides' by supporting gay groups. No. AFA said this was about Ford promoting 'gay marriage' by advertising its products to gay consumers, by providing its gay employees with company benefits, and by including sexual-orientation discrimination in the company's diversity training. Corporate America, meet with these extremists at your own risk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21535]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The juries are our judges of all fact, and of law when they choose it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23580]]></link><description><![CDATA[The juries are our judges of all fact, and of law when they choose it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men have, for the most part, done with lamenting their lost faith. Sentimental tears over the happy, simple Christendom of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men have, for the most part, done with lamenting their lost faith. Sentimental tears over the happy, simple Christendom of their fathers are a thing of the past. They are proclaiming now their contempt for Christ's character, and their disgust at the very name of love. Scorn and hatred, difference and division, must be more than ever our lot, if we would be the followers of Christ in these days. Conventional religion and polite unbelief are gone forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60849]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not playing hard enough, we're not playing mean enough, and we're not finishing plays. We're just way too nice. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42682]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not playing hard enough, we're not playing mean enough, and we're not finishing plays. We're just way too nice. We would have won the Mister Friendly contest out there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20033]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems like an innocent act -- trying to start a vehicle -- but by not being properly positioned, you've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31665]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems like an innocent act -- trying to start a vehicle -- but by not being properly positioned, you've got a fatal injury. It's a horrible tragedy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks.  [Ger., Auch die Kultur, die alle Welt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks.  [Ger., Auch die Kultur, die alle Welt beleckt,   Hat auf den Teufel sich erstreckt.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reform must come from within, not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reform must come from within, not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61047]]></link><description><![CDATA[As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abstinence is whereby a man refraineth from any thyng which he may lawfully take. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abstinence is whereby a man refraineth from any thyng which he may lawfully take.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Difficulties exist to be surmounted ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Difficulties exist to be surmounted]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born.  Modesty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born.  Modesty died when false modesty was born.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talentsare, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talentsare, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given tous. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage anddetermination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Certainly the notion of putting music video on phones will increase over time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certainly the notion of putting music video on phones will increase over time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What in the hell would they do with the farm program without us? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34125]]></link><description><![CDATA[What in the hell would they do with the farm program without us?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And, may I say to thee, this pride of hers, Upon advice, hath drawn my love from her;  And, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13074]]></link><description><![CDATA[And, may I say to thee, this pride of hers, Upon advice, hath drawn my love from her;  And, where I thought the remnant of mine age   Should have been cherished by her childlike duty,    I now am full resolved to take a wife     And turn her out to who will take her in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What will the world be quite overturned when you die? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28016]]></link><description><![CDATA[What will the world be quite overturned when you die?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5675]]></link><description><![CDATA[The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Practice is everything"This is often misquoted as "Practice makes perfect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Practice is everything"This is often misquoted as "Practice makes perfect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conglomerates and cyclical companies have been on the spot lately and after today's industrial data, they once again became a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conglomerates and cyclical companies have been on the spot lately and after today's industrial data, they once again became a good buying opportunity. But the trading is volatile and a bit distorted given the options expiration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Changes start occurring when budgets are cut. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4965]]></link><description><![CDATA[Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind never fully accepts any convictions that it does not owe to its own efforts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53590]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind never fully accepts any convictions that it does not owe to its own efforts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the world's enjoyments That ever valued were,  There's none of our employments   With fishing can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the world's enjoyments That ever valued were,  There's none of our employments   With fishing can compare.   - Thomas Durfee (or D'Urfey),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just wrote 'Merry Christmas John' on my balloon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37042]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just wrote 'Merry Christmas John' on my balloon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discord, a sleepless hag who never dies, With Snipe-like nose, and Ferret-glowing eyes,  Lean sallow cheeks, long chin with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discord, a sleepless hag who never dies, With Snipe-like nose, and Ferret-glowing eyes,  Lean sallow cheeks, long chin with beard supplied,   Poor crackling joints, and wither'd parchment hide,    As if old Drums, worn out with martial din,     Had clubb'd their yellow Heads to form her Skin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...it is always from a minority acting in ways different from what the majority would prescribe that the majority in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56944]]></link><description><![CDATA[...it is always from a minority acting in ways different from what the majority would prescribe that the majority in the end learns to do better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real foreveryone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22454]]></link><description><![CDATA[The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real foreveryone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice. It involves littlemore than changing our ideas about what is normal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman's appetite is twice that of a man's; her sexual desire, four times; her intelligence, eight times ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2889]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman's appetite is twice that of a man's; her sexual desire, four times; her intelligence, eight times]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was good to see us rise to occasion. Getting an early lead gives you a mental edge. You know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33414]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was good to see us rise to occasion. Getting an early lead gives you a mental edge. You know one mistake is not going to beat you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3407]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot hold mortality's strong hand. -King John. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55797]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot hold mortality's strong hand. -King John. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Big time. That's all I can say about our seniors. They've been leading us all year and it showed tonight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Big time. That's all I can say about our seniors. They've been leading us all year and it showed tonight as both of them stepped up big.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19477]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55546]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62968]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness can exist only in acceptance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness can exist only in acceptance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/285</guid></item></channel></rss>