<?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[Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those presents are the most acceptable which are enhanced by our regard for the donor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those presents are the most acceptable which are enhanced by our regard for the donor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suppose Christianity is not a religion but a way of life, a falling in love with God, and, through Him, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suppose Christianity is not a religion but a way of life, a falling in love with God, and, through Him, a falling in love with our fellows. Of course, such a way is hard and costly, but it is also joyous and rewarding even in the here-and-now. People who follow that Way know beyond all possible argument that they are in harmony with the purpose of God, that Christ is with them and in them as they set about His work in our disordered world. If anyone thinks this is perilous and revolutionary teaching, so much the better. That is exactly what they thought of the teaching of Jesus Christ. The light He brought to bear upon human affairs is almost unbearably brilliant: but it is the light of Truth, and in that light human problems can be solved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1907]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a superb bill for America. It lets people keep their money, increases growth and job opportunity, and it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30198]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a superb bill for America. It lets people keep their money, increases growth and job opportunity, and it's just the beginning. You ain't seen nothing yet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877  To put it shortly, the Church forgets that Christianity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877  To put it shortly, the Church forgets that Christianity is not an attitude of mind, but a type of life: a man's spirit is not known by his opinion, but by his action and general conduct.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is more about reunification and repairing. But it's extremely urgent. If you're separated from your child in a supermarket ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34697]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is more about reunification and repairing. But it's extremely urgent. If you're separated from your child in a supermarket or department store for 10 minutes, it's something you never forget. Here are parents who are separated from their children for three weeks and don't know where they are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who prays and labours lifts his heart to God with his hands. [Lat., Qui orat laborat, cor levat ad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23919]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who prays and labours lifts his heart to God with his hands. [Lat., Qui orat laborat, cor levat ad Deum cum manibus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/448]]></link><description><![CDATA[The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then purg'd with euphrasy and rue The visual nerve, for he had much to see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then purg'd with euphrasy and rue The visual nerve, for he had much to see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4226]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reviewers are usually people who would have been poets, historians, biographers, etc., if they could: they have tried their talents ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reviewers are usually people who would have been poets, historians, biographers, etc., if they could: they have tried their talents at one or the other, and have failed; therefore they turn critics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The go-between wears out a thousand sandals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44363]]></link><description><![CDATA[The go-between wears out a thousand sandals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5389]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Please, sir, is this Plumfield?" asked a ragged boy of the man who opened the great gate at which the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4632]]></link><description><![CDATA["Please, sir, is this Plumfield?" asked a ragged boy of the man who opened the great gate at which the omnibus left him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's still a lot of softball to be played. We would like for the tournament to be here but our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37542]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's still a lot of softball to be played. We would like for the tournament to be here but our goal is to qualify for the tournament.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May be he is not well. Infirmity doth neglect all office  Whereto our health is bound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18928]]></link><description><![CDATA[May be he is not well. Infirmity doth neglect all office  Whereto our health is bound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In doing nothing men learn to do evil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48805]]></link><description><![CDATA[In doing nothing men learn to do evil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let Zephyr only breathe And with her tresses play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let Zephyr only breathe And with her tresses play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm incredibly happy. ... If you are persistent, you will succeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41573]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm incredibly happy. ... If you are persistent, you will succeed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever begins, also ends. [Lat., Quicquid coepit, et desinit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever begins, also ends. [Lat., Quicquid coepit, et desinit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marimekko meets Machu Picchu. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marimekko meets Machu Picchu.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sweat of industry would dry and die, But for the end it works to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51243]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sweat of industry would dry and die, But for the end it works to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a natural extension of location services we've seen serving the business market to track workers and employees. Sprint ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41636]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a natural extension of location services we've seen serving the business market to track workers and employees. Sprint has built a bridge to the consumer world and to families. Sprint has done a good job ensuring that privacy concerns are kept to a minimum.... Kids can always turn the phone off if they don't want to be tracked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3411]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4662]]></link><description><![CDATA[A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Painting is just like a guy playing an instrument; it's something to look forward to the next day. When I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Painting is just like a guy playing an instrument; it's something to look forward to the next day. When I was painting in Dixon, I was out of the place . . . and I made some money selling paintings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort, is not fit to be deemed a scholar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58018]]></link><description><![CDATA[The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort, is not fit to be deemed a scholar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman's general. What should we fear? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51321]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman's general. What should we fear?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One enemy is too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49684]]></link><description><![CDATA[One enemy is too much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27246]]></link><description><![CDATA[She is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3135]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want. -Jonathan ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want. -Jonathan Swift.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pedantry is the showy display of knowledge which crams our heads with learned lumber and then takes out our brains ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pedantry is the showy display of knowledge which crams our heads with learned lumber and then takes out our brains to make room for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any solution to a problem changes the problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any solution to a problem changes the problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps the most widespread misunderstanding of economics is that it applies solely to financial transactions. Frequently this leads to statements ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps the most widespread misunderstanding of economics is that it applies solely to financial transactions. Frequently this leads to statements that "there are noneconomic values" to consider. There are, of course, noneconomic values. Indeed, there are only noneconomic values. Economics is not a value itself but merely a method of trading off one value against another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody has a personal bias. If the dog weighs less than 40 or 45 pounds, they will probably have trouble ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody has a personal bias. If the dog weighs less than 40 or 45 pounds, they will probably have trouble encountering logs or heavy brush or tall grass. It doesn't mean they can't do it, but they're limited.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is strength without a double share of wisdom? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57957]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is strength without a double share of wisdom?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5476]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or light or dark, or short or tall, She sets a springe to snare them all:  All's one to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or light or dark, or short or tall, She sets a springe to snare them all:  All's one to her--above her fan   She'd make sweet eyes at Caliban.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2802</guid></item></channel></rss>