<?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 am not sure people realize how big it is to be at the top of the pyramid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41644]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not sure people realize how big it is to be at the top of the pyramid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In some cases, this will provide a solution for councils. The public forgets that we have a statutory obligation to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34772]]></link><description><![CDATA[In some cases, this will provide a solution for councils. The public forgets that we have a statutory obligation to deliver education for every child, and some kids just cannot thrive in a mainstream school.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are all in the lily-bed, cuddled close together-- Purple, Yellow-cap, and little Baby-blue;  How they ever got there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45439]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are all in the lily-bed, cuddled close together-- Purple, Yellow-cap, and little Baby-blue;  How they ever got there you must ask the April weather,   The morning and the evening winds, the sunshine and the dew.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In that fierce light which beats upon a throne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54522]]></link><description><![CDATA[In that fierce light which beats upon a throne.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath: Therefore the Son ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54583]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath: Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abuse is the weapon of the vulgar ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abuse is the weapon of the vulgar]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you start a conversation with the assumptionthat you are right or that you must win,obviously it is difficult to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9065]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you start a conversation with the assumptionthat you are right or that you must win,obviously it is difficult to talk.He is author of the Citizenship Papers and answeredquestions at a Washington DC book store.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This competition highlights the strengths of the new system. You can have rankings but still have people be very close. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30053]]></link><description><![CDATA[This competition highlights the strengths of the new system. You can have rankings but still have people be very close. The new system allows for unpredictability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The really idle man gets nowhere. The perpetually busy mandoes not get much further. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22169]]></link><description><![CDATA[The really idle man gets nowhere. The perpetually busy mandoes not get much further.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dear creature!--you'd swear When her delicate feet in the dance twinkle round,  That her steps are of light, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dear creature!--you'd swear When her delicate feet in the dance twinkle round,  That her steps are of light, that her home is the air,   And she only par complaisance touches the ground.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what\'s right . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63960]]></link><description><![CDATA[True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what\'s right .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where water is boss, the land must obbey ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where water is boss, the land must obbey]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53861]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no way the UAW can reach an agreement with Delphi without GM coming to the table much more than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35590]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no way the UAW can reach an agreement with Delphi without GM coming to the table much more than they have so far.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The word "Witch" carries so many negative connotations that many people wonder why we use the word at all. Yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61848]]></link><description><![CDATA[The word "Witch" carries so many negative connotations that many people wonder why we use the word at all. Yet to reclaim the word "Witch" is to reclaim our right, as women, to be powerful; as men, to know the feminine within as divine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the end, it's not going to matter how many breaths you took, but how many moments took your breath ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62738]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the end, it's not going to matter how many breaths you took, but how many moments took your breath away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is most tolerable, and not to be endured. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is most tolerable, and not to be endured. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11376]]></link><description><![CDATA[The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Companies appear to have turned cautious because of the possibility of spikes in crude oil prices, which could hit corporate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Companies appear to have turned cautious because of the possibility of spikes in crude oil prices, which could hit corporate profitability. Oil prices have been stable recently, but are still generally at high levels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're now looking at going over there to begin discussions. It does require bilateral discussions with another country, but we're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37488]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're now looking at going over there to begin discussions. It does require bilateral discussions with another country, but we're cautiously looking at being there by the fall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the beach at night, Stands a child with her father, Watching the east, the autumn sky.Up through the darkness, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3861]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the beach at night, Stands a child with her father, Watching the east, the autumn sky.Up through the darkness, While ravening clouds, the burial clouds, in black masses spreading, Lower sullen and fast athwart and down the sky, Amid a transparent clear belt of ether yet left in the east, Ascends large and calm the lord-star Jupiter, And nigh at hand, only a very little above, Swim the delicate sisters the Pleiades.From the beach the child holding the hand of her father, Those burial-clouds that lower victorious soon to devour all, Watching, silently weeps.Weep not, child, Weep not, my darling, With these kisses let me remove your tears, The ravening clouds shall not long be victorious, They shall not long possess the sky, they devour the stars only in apparition, Jupiter shall emerge, be patient, watch again another night, the Pleiades shall emerge, They are immortal, all those stars both silvery and golden shall shine out again, The great stars and the little ones shall shine out again, they endure, The vast immortal suns and the long-enduring pensive moons shall again shine.Then dearest child mournest thou only for jupiter? Considerest thou alone the burial of the stars? Something there is, (With my lips soothing thee, adding I whisper, I give thee the first suggestion, the problem and indirection,) Something there is more immortal even than the stars, (Many the burials, many the days and nights, passing away,) Something that shall endure longer even than lustrous Jupiter Longer than sun or any revolving satellite, Or the radiant sisters the Pleiades.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64159]]></link><description><![CDATA[A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622   We must not be unjust and require from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622   We must not be unjust and require from ourselves what is not in ourselves. Do not desire not to be what you are, but desire to be very well what you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion.   - William Makepeace Thackeray,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16471]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is I; Science is we. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is I; Science is we.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things have been great this season. We've had a lot of support and we hope to see more people here ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things have been great this season. We've had a lot of support and we hope to see more people here next year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52820]]></link><description><![CDATA[He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That relationship saved him. He was devastated with the injuries and no one could've helped him more than Dave Davis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32436]]></link><description><![CDATA[That relationship saved him. He was devastated with the injuries and no one could've helped him more than Dave Davis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At this point, with the mixture of the slushy snow because the temperature is at 32 or just a little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37582]]></link><description><![CDATA[At this point, with the mixture of the slushy snow because the temperature is at 32 or just a little above, it is heavy snow to push off the roadway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm religiously opposed to religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64678]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm religiously opposed to religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonviolence doesn't always work -- but violence never does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonviolence doesn't always work -- but violence never does.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64167]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1482]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maundy Thursday   We usually think of Jesus in the upper room as calmly and patiently preparing his disciples ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maundy Thursday   We usually think of Jesus in the upper room as calmly and patiently preparing his disciples for their coming crisis; only in the garden are we shown his deep anguish over what lies ahead for himself. But if this verse ("'They hated me without a cause." Ps. 69:4) occurred to Jesus as describing his enemies, surely he was also identifying with the rest of [Psalm 69] with its vivid description of overwhelming troubles and importune cries to God for deliverance. What in the upper room was still under the surface was openly expressed in the garden.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21639]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Move on!It's just a chapter in the past! But don't close the book,just turn the page.... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Move on!It's just a chapter in the past! But don't close the book,just turn the page....]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such subtle covenants shall be made, Till peace itself is war in masquerade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such subtle covenants shall be made, Till peace itself is war in masquerade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6000]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let echo, too, perform her part, Prolonging every note with art;  And in a low expiring strain,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let echo, too, perform her part, Prolonging every note with art;  And in a low expiring strain,   Play all the comfort o'er again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You kick against the goad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51760]]></link><description><![CDATA[You kick against the goad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27218]]></link><description><![CDATA[We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When asked what wines he liked to drink he replied, "That which belongs to another."   - Laertius Diogenes, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61681]]></link><description><![CDATA[When asked what wines he liked to drink he replied, "That which belongs to another."   - Laertius Diogenes,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rebuild of No. 14, with a 20-year life expectancy, is a significant financial investment in Gary Works and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38696]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rebuild of No. 14, with a 20-year life expectancy, is a significant financial investment in Gary Works and a demonstration of our commitment to our customers, work force and community.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To believe that if we could but have this or that we would be happy is to suppress the realization ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52300]]></link><description><![CDATA[To believe that if we could but have this or that we would be happy is to suppress the realization that the cause of our unhappiness is in our inadequate and blemished selves. Excessive desire is thus a means of suppressing our sense of worthlessness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drosselmeier had unwittingly exposed himself to an overdose of reality, and it had destroyed his reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drosselmeier had unwittingly exposed himself to an overdose of reality, and it had destroyed his reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58379</guid></item></channel></rss>