<?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[I'm steering away from (heavy marketing of) Felix because of the pressure on him, and because his head may get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31917]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm steering away from (heavy marketing of) Felix because of the pressure on him, and because his head may get too big. He's got that gleam in his eye. As he matures, he's going to be a handful. He'll push the envelope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Extremes meet and there is no better example than the haughtiness of humility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Extremes meet and there is no better example than the haughtiness of humility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49879]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65190]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shelved around us lie The mummied authors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shelved around us lie The mummied authors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones,  Forget ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones,  Forget not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62312</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[There are two great days in a person\'s life - the day we are born and the day we discover ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66780]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two great days in a person\'s life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a frustration that these letters aren't considered public and so it's difficult to understand what the risks are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33423]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a frustration that these letters aren't considered public and so it's difficult to understand what the risks are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calamity is man's true touchstone ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calamity is man's true touchstone]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I saw a lot of two-lane roads become four-lane roads. Back when I first started all the development on (Ga. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33762]]></link><description><![CDATA[I saw a lot of two-lane roads become four-lane roads. Back when I first started all the development on (Ga. Highway) 124 had not occurred.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quick guys get tired; big guys don't shrink. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quick guys get tired; big guys don't shrink.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I were to prescribe one process in the training of men which is fundamental to success in any direction, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44794]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were to prescribe one process in the training of men which is fundamental to success in any direction, it would be thoroughgoing training in the habit of accurate observation. It is a habit which every one of us should be seeking ever more to perfect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that strikes with his tongue, must ward with his head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that strikes with his tongue, must ward with his head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54720]]></link><description><![CDATA[This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18491]]></link><description><![CDATA[One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been in this business for years, and this has been the hardest three days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32491]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been in this business for years, and this has been the hardest three days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog, And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55566]]></link><description><![CDATA[You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog, And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of eachother everywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16830]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of eachother everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More light! [Ger., Mehr Licht!] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25053]]></link><description><![CDATA[More light! [Ger., Mehr Licht!]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8710]]></link><description><![CDATA[To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Questions are the creative acts of intelligence ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Questions are the creative acts of intelligence]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's really an impressive number. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31318]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's really an impressive number.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is an attempt to smear a well-known group with allegations of involvement in espionage activity. They are preparing public ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41246]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is an attempt to smear a well-known group with allegations of involvement in espionage activity. They are preparing public opinion for a government move to close us down, which they can now do under the new law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20503]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I go to the chair of government with feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60286]]></link><description><![CDATA[I go to the chair of government with feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under your good correction, I have seen When, after execution, judgment hath  Repented o'er his doom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under your good correction, I have seen When, after execution, judgment hath  Repented o'er his doom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is great who is what he is from Nature, and who never reminds us of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18253]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is great who is what he is from Nature, and who never reminds us of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter, because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46556]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter, because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the ordinary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me think... I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me think... I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Epicureans, that ascribed the origin and frame of the world not to the power of God, but to the fortuitous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Epicureans, that ascribed the origin and frame of the world not to the power of God, but to the fortuitous concourse of atoms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65650]]></link><description><![CDATA[War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much matter decocted into few words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much matter decocted into few words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You feel like maybe you need the rest . . . but you have to make sure you stay on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28814]]></link><description><![CDATA[You feel like maybe you need the rest . . . but you have to make sure you stay on top of the little details.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And this be the vocation fit, For which the founder fashioned it;  High, high above earth's life, earth's labor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4126]]></link><description><![CDATA[And this be the vocation fit, For which the founder fashioned it;  High, high above earth's life, earth's labor   E'en to the heaven's blue vault to soar.    To hover as the thunder's neighbor,     The very firmament explore.      To be a voice as from above       Like yonder stars so bright and clear,        That praise their Maker as they move,         And usher in the circling year.          Tun'd be its metal mouth alone           To things eternal and sublime.            And as the swift wing'd hours speed on             May it record the flight of time!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My reaction to porno films is as follows; After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43327]]></link><description><![CDATA[My reaction to porno films is as follows; After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw, After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coach shows me spots where I disappear, where I'm too passive. If I don't want the ball, if I'm not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coach shows me spots where I disappear, where I'm too passive. If I don't want the ball, if I'm not aggressive, I'm out there for no reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frank is definitely not a keeping-the-seat-warm kind of figure. I've known Frank fairly well for six years. I wouldn't use ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38499]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frank is definitely not a keeping-the-seat-warm kind of figure. I've known Frank fairly well for six years. I wouldn't use the term 'rising star,' but in the world of the Vatican he is very highly thought of ... he's someone who could be an archbishop someday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42943]]></link><description><![CDATA[So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the dime stores and bus stations, People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, Draw conclusions on the wall ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52824]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the dime stores and bus stations, People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, Draw conclusions on the wall]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money will not buy happiness, but it will let you be unhappy in nice places. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42988]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money will not buy happiness, but it will let you be unhappy in nice places.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silent, grim, colossal, the Big City has ever stood against its revilers. They call it hard as iron; they say ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silent, grim, colossal, the Big City has ever stood against its revilers. They call it hard as iron; they say that nothing of pity beats in its bosom; they compare its streets with lonely forests and deserts of lava. But beneath the hard crust of the lobster is found a delectable and luscious food. Perhaps a different simile would have been wiser. Still nobody should take offence. We would call nobody a lobster with good and sufficient claws.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44432</guid></item></channel></rss>