<?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[The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45209]]></link><description><![CDATA[The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who gets the better of an irascible temperament conquers his worst enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51608]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who gets the better of an irascible temperament conquers his worst enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60337]]></link><description><![CDATA[A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man shapes himself through decision that shape his environment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man shapes himself through decision that shape his environment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before you knew it, people raised their hands and started arranging things. One person made a tool-sharing list and another ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before you knew it, people raised their hands and started arranging things. One person made a tool-sharing list and another a baby-sitting list.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is a minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is a minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.. Epictetus, c ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26503]]></link><description><![CDATA[What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.. Epictetus, c 200 AD -Seneca.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest thing that would help the markets right now would be a sustained drop in crude oil, but I'm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40733]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest thing that would help the markets right now would be a sustained drop in crude oil, but I'm not holding my breath for that. It's drawing attention away from third-quarter numbers that, despite GM, are really pretty good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. Youmust set yourself on fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. Youmust set yourself on fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is rarely pure and never simple. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59773]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is rarely pure and never simple.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Awake, thou wintry earth-- Fling off thy sadness!  Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth   Your ancient gladness!  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Awake, thou wintry earth-- Fling off thy sadness!  Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth   Your ancient gladness!    Christ is risen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[K is for KENGHIS KHAN. _He_ was a very _nice_ person. History has no record of him. There is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56837]]></link><description><![CDATA[K is for KENGHIS KHAN. _He_ was a very _nice_ person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You always want to change the match after it's over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40321]]></link><description><![CDATA[You always want to change the match after it's over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44978]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A heart unspotted is not easily daunted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51311]]></link><description><![CDATA[A heart unspotted is not easily daunted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52165]]></link><description><![CDATA[We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11552]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thank you, pretty cow, that made Pleasant milk to soak my bread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thank you, pretty cow, that made Pleasant milk to soak my bread.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4210]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one thing over which you have absolute control is your own thoughts. It is this that puts you in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10063]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one thing over which you have absolute control is your own thoughts. It is this that puts you in a position to control your own destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Searching for what I need, and I don't even know precisely what that is, I was going from a man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Searching for what I need, and I don't even know precisely what that is, I was going from a man to a man, and I saw that all of them together have less than me who has nothing, and that I left to each of them a bit of that what I don't have and I've been searching for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beginning a short series on education:   The history of our student movement [Inter-Varsity] has demonstrated that a prayer-less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beginning a short series on education:   The history of our student movement [Inter-Varsity] has demonstrated that a prayer-less chapter is a fruitless chapter. Prayer spells all the difference between working for God in our own strength and wisdom or being fellow laborers together with Him in the work that He is seeking to do in the University.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a high explosive bomb but at this stage we are still investigating the type of bomb, whether it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29536]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a high explosive bomb but at this stage we are still investigating the type of bomb, whether it was homemade or not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The third quarter really hurt us. They had been playing us full-court man the entire game, but we went through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31949]]></link><description><![CDATA[The third quarter really hurt us. They had been playing us full-court man the entire game, but we went through a couple of minutes in that period where Oakland got even more aggressive; we just couldn't hang on to the ball and they were able to score off it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear has many eyes. [Sp., El miedo tiene muchos ojos.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear has many eyes. [Sp., El miedo tiene muchos ojos.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1350]]></link><description><![CDATA[The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20973]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you go flying back through time, and you see somebody else flying forward into the future, it's probably best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63138]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you go flying back through time, and you see somebody else flying forward into the future, it's probably best to avoid eye contact.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis a very fine thing to be father-in-law To a very magnificent three-tailed bashaw. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54458]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis a very fine thing to be father-in-law To a very magnificent three-tailed bashaw.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have a different effect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have a different effect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's braggin about his new Jordan'sThe baby just ran out of milkHe's buyin gold every two weeksThe baby just ran ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52970]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's braggin about his new Jordan'sThe baby just ran out of milkHe's buyin gold every two weeksThe baby just ran out of PampersHe's buyin clothes for his new girland the baby just ran out of medicineYou ask for money for the baby?The daddy just ran out the doorGIRL! I can't believe him(I can..)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49994]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs. [Lat., Ex ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs. [Lat., Ex humili magna ad fastigia rerum  Extollit, quoties voluit fortuna jocari.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best proof of love is trust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2226]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best proof of love is trust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are pleased to be able to provide Boiling Springs Savings Bank with a first-class Identity and Trust Assurance solution ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42366]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are pleased to be able to provide Boiling Springs Savings Bank with a first-class Identity and Trust Assurance solution for its online customer base. Our Content Verification Certificate solution will allow Boiling Springs to maintain confidence and trust among its consumers thus increasing online transactional volume as well as build awareness that it is truly a leader in customer-care and security.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11076]]></link><description><![CDATA[...Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Germany in general has stayed united with the other two partners, but is considered sort of the weak link. My ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Germany in general has stayed united with the other two partners, but is considered sort of the weak link. My guess is that (Merkel's) Christian Democrats might be marginally more in line with the U.S. position.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have exclusive access to Alexis as he goes through the process. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33192]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have exclusive access to Alexis as he goes through the process.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of thereflections. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21126]]></link><description><![CDATA[For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of thereflections.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21126</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[The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees, Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees.  Three centuries he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44715]]></link><description><![CDATA[The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees, Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees.  Three centuries he grows, and three he stays   Supreme in state; and in three more decays.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This group is rich in talent and personality. They embody the spirit of Wake Forest field hockey and I look ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37816]]></link><description><![CDATA[This group is rich in talent and personality. They embody the spirit of Wake Forest field hockey and I look forward to their contributions as student-athletes. I have faith in their ability to keep up the strong tradition of Wake Forest hockey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Had Tibet not fallen away from dharmaChina could not have invaded.(in reference to violation of Buddha'sforbidding animal slaughter). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had Tibet not fallen away from dharmaChina could not have invaded.(in reference to violation of Buddha'sforbidding animal slaughter).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25935]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care. And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings. . -Buddha.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact that we write about it doesn't mean we play better than ordinary players at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28606]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact that we write about it doesn't mean we play better than ordinary players at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're doing it for one or two schools, like Wheeling Central because they are so big. I know what their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30207]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're doing it for one or two schools, like Wheeling Central because they are so big. I know what their intent was, and some of them were reasonable and some were not, but I don't think they thought the operations of it through.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64298]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64298</guid></item></channel></rss>