<?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 would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"; for faith consists in the knowledge ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7926]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"; for faith consists in the knowledge of God and Christ, not in reverence for the Church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Efficiency is doing better what is already being done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love to travel, But hate to arrive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59613]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love to travel, But hate to arrive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens--and then everybody disagrees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens--and then everybody disagrees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many persons who look on Sunday as a sponge to wipe out the sins of the week ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9644]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many persons who look on Sunday as a sponge to wipe out the sins of the week]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He can afford to be a fool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50241]]></link><description><![CDATA[He can afford to be a fool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of Satan's shepherdesses caught And meant to stamp him with her master's mark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51709]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of Satan's shepherdesses caught And meant to stamp him with her master's mark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I consider how my light is spent  Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8154]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I consider how my light is spent  Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide,  And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present  My true account, lest He returning chide,  "Doth God exact day-labor, light denied?" I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies: "God doth not need  Either man's work, or His own gifts. Who best  Bear His mild yoke, they serve Him best. His state Is kingly. Thousands at his bidding speed,  And post o'er land and ocean without rest;  They also serve who only stand and wait.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9199]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Blue Valley) has a vision for being the best school district in the nation, ... I hope we can provide ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39541]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Blue Valley) has a vision for being the best school district in the nation, ... I hope we can provide some kind of model. Not just for the metropolitan area but for the nation as a whole.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For them to begin to see [the agency] as a more positive presence in the communities - that's huge progress. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42526]]></link><description><![CDATA[For them to begin to see [the agency] as a more positive presence in the communities - that's huge progress. We sit now right on the cusp of losing that if we're not careful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither head, nor feet. [Referring to anything very intricate.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither head, nor feet. [Referring to anything very intricate.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[LSD melts your mind, not in your hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28029]]></link><description><![CDATA[LSD melts your mind, not in your hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting is a matter of giving away secrets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take care what you say before a wall, as you cannot tell who may be behind it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take care what you say before a wall, as you cannot tell who may be behind it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shee spins well that breedes her children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shee spins well that breedes her children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I fear the man who drinks water and so remembers this morning what the rest of us said last night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3891]]></link><description><![CDATA[I fear the man who drinks water and so remembers this morning what the rest of us said last night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you will discipline yourself to make your mind self-sufficient you will thereby be least vulnerable to injury from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1069]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you will discipline yourself to make your mind self-sufficient you will thereby be least vulnerable to injury from the outside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21202]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jest not with the two-edged sword of God's word. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jest not with the two-edged sword of God's word.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laws were made to be broken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laws were made to be broken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A leader may symbolize and express what is best in people, like Pericles, or what is worst, like Hitler, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24453]]></link><description><![CDATA[A leader may symbolize and express what is best in people, like Pericles, or what is worst, like Hitler, but he cannot successfully express what is only in his heart and not in theirs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thou couldst, doctor, cast The water of my land, find her disease,  And purge it to a sound ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2926]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thou couldst, doctor, cast The water of my land, find her disease,  And purge it to a sound and pristine health,   I would applaud thee to the very echo,    That should applaud you again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He stands erect; his slouch becomes a walk; He steps right onward, martial in his air,  His form and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57147]]></link><description><![CDATA[He stands erect; his slouch becomes a walk; He steps right onward, martial in his air,  His form and movement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Telling lies does not work in advertising. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Telling lies does not work in advertising.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gas was pouring out of the truck like a roof drain in a storm, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35565]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gas was pouring out of the truck like a roof drain in a storm,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any community that fails to prepare -- with the expectation that the federal government can or will offer a lifeline ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any community that fails to prepare -- with the expectation that the federal government can or will offer a lifeline -- will be tragically wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every human mind is a great slumbering power until awakened by a keen desire and by definite resolution to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every human mind is a great slumbering power until awakened by a keen desire and by definite resolution to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old goths never die, they just need less makeup ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old goths never die, they just need less makeup]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of herbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of herbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I play my best, I can win anywhere in the world against anybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21899]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I play my best, I can win anywhere in the world against anybody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether [CDC is] acquiring the right companies or not, the strategy makes sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether [CDC is] acquiring the right companies or not, the strategy makes sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No amount of artificial reinforcement can offset the natural inequalities of human individuals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56930]]></link><description><![CDATA[No amount of artificial reinforcement can offset the natural inequalities of human individuals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you hold it up, you can see right through it. It doesn't smell because it doesn't retain water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32091]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you hold it up, you can see right through it. It doesn't smell because it doesn't retain water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is to teach those who have never gone hunting how to respect farming traditions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40121]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is to teach those who have never gone hunting how to respect farming traditions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under the existing laws, they have averted a disaster from taking place in this country; they have arrested the people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under the existing laws, they have averted a disaster from taking place in this country; they have arrested the people who have been conspiring ... so we don't need new laws,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old praise dies, unlesse you feede it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old praise dies, unlesse you feede it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, Madame, I have fed like a farmer; I shall grow as fat as a porpoise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, Madame, I have fed like a farmer; I shall grow as fat as a porpoise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If they hadn't gotten that goal, I think we would have dominated the game, but that goal deflated us. Once ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35626]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they hadn't gotten that goal, I think we would have dominated the game, but that goal deflated us. Once we got into our game, we played really well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can't have a DJ every day, but they sure enjoyed it. At the raffle desk, we had people sign ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33230]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can't have a DJ every day, but they sure enjoyed it. At the raffle desk, we had people sign up for the rewards card. Those are potential repeat customers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1219]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The disaster in New Orleans] is not an act of god, ... This is an act of man. The federal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30045]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The disaster in New Orleans] is not an act of god, ... This is an act of man. The federal government refused to spend the money to improve the levees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43118]]></link><description><![CDATA[The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43118</guid></item></channel></rss>