<?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://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[It was impossible to get a conversation going; everybody was talking too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10078]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was impossible to get a conversation going; everybody was talking too much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opportunity is there, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28279]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opportunity is there,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56371]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence. - A Letter to Myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence. - A Letter to Myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ordinary person can simply walk into a shop and feel that they can participate in helping the needy by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35791]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ordinary person can simply walk into a shop and feel that they can participate in helping the needy by simply buying a perfume.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing I was concerned about is it looked to me from the sideline like (Thomas) might have chopped ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30376]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing I was concerned about is it looked to me from the sideline like (Thomas) might have chopped Mark Campbell to cause the pileup, which is illegal. If he didn't do that, then the kid made a great play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44861]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Methought I say the footsteps of a throne.   - William Wordsworth, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Methought I say the footsteps of a throne.   - William Wordsworth,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fail to honor people,they fail to honor you; but of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fail to honor people,they fail to honor you; but of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aims fulfilled, they will all say, 'We did this ourselves.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[According to Doug Allen, president of MastroNet, the rapidly growing Americana division provided fertile ground for establishing some new favorite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33926]]></link><description><![CDATA[[According to Doug Allen, president of MastroNet, the rapidly growing Americana division provided fertile ground for establishing some new favorite collecting items and areas of interest.] There can be little doubt that Americana collectors are increasing in numbers, ... With each auction we see new categories of collectibles emerging, many with selling prices that seem to be giving previously obscure items new value.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Physical activity has been shown to be beneficial for health and aging in a number of areas. This emerging association ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Physical activity has been shown to be beneficial for health and aging in a number of areas. This emerging association between exercise and cognitive health is increasingly important to understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65003]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your bounty is beyond my speaking; But though my mouth be dumb, my heart shall thank you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your bounty is beyond my speaking; But though my mouth be dumb, my heart shall thank you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14821]]></link><description><![CDATA[The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62908]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem a turned it into an opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58964]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you get tired of walking around San Francisco, you can always lean against it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8758]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you get tired of walking around San Francisco, you can always lean against it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885   In our Ashrams of East ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885   In our Ashrams of East and West, places of spiritual retreat, we begin with what we call "The Morning of the Open Heart", in which we tell our needs... We give four or five hours to this catharsis. The reaction of one member, who listened to it for the first time, was: "Good gracious, have we all the disrupted people in the country here?" My reply was: "No, you have a cross section of the church life honestly revealed." In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the world of reality, life, and human action there is no such thing as interests independent of ideas, preceding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52016]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the world of reality, life, and human action there is no such thing as interests independent of ideas, preceding them temporarily and logically. What a man considers his interest is the result of his ideas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10474]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60455]]></link><description><![CDATA[While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Example is leadership. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Example is leadership.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51915]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rich man in his castle, / The poor man at his gate, / God made them, high or lowly, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31242]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rich man in his castle, / The poor man at his gate, / God made them, high or lowly, / And ordered their estate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diplomacy is thinking twice before saying nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diplomacy is thinking twice before saying nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2537]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last night we heard that someone got robbed right down the street, on Spottswood right down here. That's about all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last night we heard that someone got robbed right down the street, on Spottswood right down here. That's about all I've heard of, besides people walking around breaking into cars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They succeed, because they think they can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51832]]></link><description><![CDATA[They succeed, because they think they can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rarely do they appear great before their valets. [Fr., Rarement ils sont grands vis-a-vis de leur valets-de-chambre.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rarely do they appear great before their valets. [Fr., Rarement ils sont grands vis-a-vis de leur valets-de-chambre.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Christian is not one who has gone all the way with Christ. None of us has. The Christian is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31370]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Christian is not one who has gone all the way with Christ. None of us has. The Christian is one who has found the right road.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will not be a cause for panic. It will not be a cause for people to stop hunting. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28821]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will not be a cause for panic. It will not be a cause for people to stop hunting. It will not be a cause for people to stop eating poultry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10117]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything in life is connected somehow. You may have to dig deep to find it but its there. Everything is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5494]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything in life is connected somehow. You may have to dig deep to find it but its there. Everything is the same even though its different. Somehow everything connects back with your life. The faces in certain places may be different, but the situation is the same. Irony is a hidden factor that creeps around us in life, letting its presence felt only after it has left. Picture back to a year ago and the situation you were in. Look at how things are different yet somehow everything it still in someway cognate. Everything connects together to form the balance of life, to maintain structure. Change is and always will be inevitable, but everything is relative, and all the moments and times in your life will come back around again, you just might find yourself on the other side of the coin. Things are always changing, as fast as everything stays the same.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's not to say we won't hear an aircraft occasionally, but the national standard for noise compatibility remains on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28691]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's not to say we won't hear an aircraft occasionally, but the national standard for noise compatibility remains on the airport.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Peter & Paul, Apostles  No man can be without his god. If he have not the true ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Peter & Paul, Apostles  No man can be without his god. If he have not the true God to bless and sustain him, he will have some false god to delude and to betray him. The Psalmist knew this, and therefore he joined so closely forgetting the name of our God and holding up our hands to some strange god. For every man has something in which he hopes, on which he leans, to which he retreats and retires, with which he fills up his thoughts in empty spaces of time, when he is alone, when he lies sleepless on his bed, when he is not pressed with other thoughts; to which he betakes himself in sorrow or trouble, as that from which he shall draw comfort and strength -- his fortress, his citadel, his defence; and has not this a good right to be called his god? Man was made to lean on the Creator; but if not on Him, then he leans on the creature in one shape or another. The ivy cannot grow alone: it must twine round some support or other; if not the goodly oak, then the ragged thorn -- round any dead stick whatever, rather than have no stay or support at all. It is even so with the heart and affections of man; if they do not twine around God, they must twine around some meaner thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Law is not the same at morning and at night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49883]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Law is not the same at morning and at night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got in there and I could not talk. I literally couldn't speak, just nightmare-froze. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41894]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got in there and I could not talk. I literally couldn't speak, just nightmare-froze.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If music be the food of love, play on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66886]]></link><description><![CDATA[If music be the food of love, play on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You got nothing to lose, so you might as well just go out there and just keep working hard, ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42593]]></link><description><![CDATA[You got nothing to lose, so you might as well just go out there and just keep working hard, ... Hopefully you just get recognized if you don't make Providence. Hopefully someone will see me and maybe give a spot sometime next year, or in the years to come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clown and guru are a single identity: the satiric and sublime side of the same higher vision of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clown and guru are a single identity: the satiric and sublime side of the same higher vision of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any excuse will serve a tyrant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any excuse will serve a tyrant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Innocence is always unsuspicious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Innocence is always unsuspicious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities. [Fr., Heureux l'homme quand il n'a pas les ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities. [Fr., Heureux l'homme quand il n'a pas les defauts de ses qualites.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15452</guid></item></channel></rss>