<?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[It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65195]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13744]]></link><description><![CDATA[The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47289]]></link><description><![CDATA[A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you make an efficient choice in moments of indecision, you establish more effectiveness within a given time span, saving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59340]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you make an efficient choice in moments of indecision, you establish more effectiveness within a given time span, saving energy and stress. That's a time shift. Doc Childre - Women Lead With Their Hearts (a White Paper) The new paradigm is a joint venture between head and heart intelligence, which generates a continuity of intuitive creative intelligence. Intuition cuts time and effort. As you gain intuitive intelligence, you become more energy and time effective. Bruce Cockburn, "A Dream Like Mine" -Doc Childre.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The King is dead! Long live the King! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54492]]></link><description><![CDATA[The King is dead! Long live the King!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men don't like nobility in woman. Not any men. I suppose it is because the men like to have the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men don't like nobility in woman. Not any men. I suppose it is because the men like to have the copyrights on nobility -- if there is going to be anything like that in a relationship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hungry man, an angry man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50959]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hungry man, an angry man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Teacher, Martyr, 1945  During the last year or so, I have come to appreciate the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Teacher, Martyr, 1945  During the last year or so, I have come to appreciate the "worldliness" of Christianity as never before. The Christian is not a homo religiosus but a man, pure and simple, just as Jesus became man... It is only by living completely in this world that one learns to believe. One must abandon every attempt to make something of oneself, whether it be a saint, a converted sinner, a churchman, a righteous man, or an unrighteous one, a sick man or a healthy one... This is what I mean by worldliness -- taking life in one's stride, with all its duties and problems, its successes and failures, its experiences and helplessness... How can success make us arrogant or failure lead us astray, when we participate in the sufferings of God by living in this world?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whence that three-cornered smile of bliss? Three angels gave me at once a kiss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56681]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whence that three-cornered smile of bliss? Three angels gave me at once a kiss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O lovely lily clean, O lily springing green,  O lily bursting white,   Dear lily of delight,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25087]]></link><description><![CDATA[O lovely lily clean, O lily springing green,  O lily bursting white,   Dear lily of delight,    Spring in my heart agen     That I may flower to men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66222]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20586]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be a great buying opportunity if the tower stocks got significantly hurt by news of a wireless merger, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39046]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be a great buying opportunity if the tower stocks got significantly hurt by news of a wireless merger,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and in honest competition. I believe there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23790]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and in honest competition. I believe there is something doing somewhere, for every man ready to do it. I believe I'm ready, RIGHT NOW.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62856]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, now blow wind, swell billow, and swim bark! The storm is up, and all is on the hazard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, now blow wind, swell billow, and swim bark! The storm is up, and all is on the hazard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60871]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Michael & All Angels  When a man really gives up trying to make something out of himself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Michael & All Angels  When a man really gives up trying to make something out of himself -- a saint, or a converted sinner, or a churchman, a righteous or unrighteous man, ... when in the fullness of tasks, questions, success or ill-hap, experiences and perplexities, a man throws himself into the arms of God... then he wakes with Christ in Gethsemane. That is faith, and it is thus that he becomes a man and Christian.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think most people will believe that Arthur Anderson died because (after Enron imploded) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29654]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think most people will believe that Arthur Anderson died because (after Enron imploded)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It smelt so faint, and it smelt so sweet, It made me creep and it made me cold.  Like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23124]]></link><description><![CDATA[It smelt so faint, and it smelt so sweet, It made me creep and it made me cold.  Like the scent that steals from the crumbling sheet   Where a mummy is half unroll'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yesterday is a canceled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is theonly cash you have-so spend it wisely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yesterday is a canceled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is theonly cash you have-so spend it wisely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When he started, the population was about 7,000 people and now it's up to over 40,000 people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33103]]></link><description><![CDATA[When he started, the population was about 7,000 people and now it's up to over 40,000 people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9604]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2215]]></link><description><![CDATA[We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is insufficient temptation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is insufficient temptation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the Muddy Waters thing, I played the first song by myself on an acoustic guitar. I thought that was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36138]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the Muddy Waters thing, I played the first song by myself on an acoustic guitar. I thought that was great that y'all did that tribute to Muddy Waters. I had a real good time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10469]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to see the face than to hear the name. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to see the face than to hear the name.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15028]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20665]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why the poor were hungry, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/990]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why the poor were hungry, they called me a communist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatred can be overcome only by love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred can be overcome only by love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or have you mark'd a partridge quake, Viewing the towering falcon nigh?  She cuddles low behind the brake:  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or have you mark'd a partridge quake, Viewing the towering falcon nigh?  She cuddles low behind the brake:   Nor would she stay; nor dares she fly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is jealous is not in love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66650]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is jealous is not in love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here honor binds me, and I wish to satisfy it. [Lat., Ici l'honneur m'oblige, et j'y veux satisfaire.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here honor binds me, and I wish to satisfy it. [Lat., Ici l'honneur m'oblige, et j'y veux satisfaire.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3069]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The general's disdained By him one step below, he by the next,  The next by him beneath; so every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14028]]></link><description><![CDATA[The general's disdained By him one step below, he by the next,  The next by him beneath; so every step,   Exampled by the first pace that is sick    Of his superior, grows to an envious fever     Of pale and bloodless emulation:      And 'tis this fever that keeps Troy on foot,       Not her own sinews.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should...be able to see that our interest would be best served not by asking the state to promulgate our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47401]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should...be able to see that our interest would be best served not by asking the state to promulgate our values but by forbidding the state to promulgate any values at all. If the state can espouse some value that we love, it can, with equal justice, espouse others we do not love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15001]]></link><description><![CDATA[As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brothers don't necessarily have to say anything to each other-they can sit in a room and be together and just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brothers don't necessarily have to say anything to each other-they can sit in a room and be together and just be completely comfortable with each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have to say that I got off very easy. There were incidents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42274]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have to say that I got off very easy. There were incidents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oft expectation fails and most oft there Where most it promises, and oft it hits Where hope is coldest and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oft expectation fails and most oft there Where most it promises, and oft it hits Where hope is coldest and despair most fits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I step out of the role you have written for meyou make me feel like a plagiarist.from the play ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/260]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I step out of the role you have written for meyou make me feel like a plagiarist.from the play Jake's Women.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/260</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></channel></rss>