<?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[Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1689]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not ent]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children in Iraq are seriously suffering psychologically with all the insecurity, especially with the fear of kidnapping and explosions. In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children in Iraq are seriously suffering psychologically with all the insecurity, especially with the fear of kidnapping and explosions. In some cases, they?re found to be suffering extreme stress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885    After saying our prayers, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885    After saying our prayers, we ought to do something to make them come true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basically, we're letting our fan club pick a third of our set. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basically, we're letting our fan club pick a third of our set.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many fine things can be done in a day if you don't always make that day tomorrow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many fine things can be done in a day if you don't always make that day tomorrow]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kind messages, that pass from land to land; Kind letters, that betray the heart's deep history,  In which we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kind messages, that pass from land to land; Kind letters, that betray the heart's deep history,  In which we feel the pressure of a hand,--   One touch of fire,--and all the rest is mystery!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want success, then don't rely on other people to do what YOU can do! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26381]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want success, then don't rely on other people to do what YOU can do!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe the success of the continued evolution of the Paul Lee's Chinese Kitchen brand will be best served under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30184]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe the success of the continued evolution of the Paul Lee's Chinese Kitchen brand will be best served under Paul Fleming's stewardship. As a measure of our confidence in Paul and his team, we have retained the option to re-enter the joint venture in the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He bristles with hair, like a sea-urchin or a hunted boar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50239]]></link><description><![CDATA[He bristles with hair, like a sea-urchin or a hunted boar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5232]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66024]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I admit that: my wife is outspoken, but by whom? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66249]]></link><description><![CDATA[I admit that: my wife is outspoken, but by whom?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[British people don't feel they can tear themselves away from their desk, and have developed a very functional relationship with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42184]]></link><description><![CDATA[British people don't feel they can tear themselves away from their desk, and have developed a very functional relationship with food.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5181]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66072]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What restricts the use of the word 'lady' among the courteous is that it is intended to set a woman ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23967]]></link><description><![CDATA[What restricts the use of the word 'lady' among the courteous is that it is intended to set a woman apart from ordinary humanity, and in the working world that is not a help, as women have discovered in many bitter ways.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poetry of the earth is never dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43918]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poetry of the earth is never dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52616]]></link><description><![CDATA[The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Same religion that saves - Damns You ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Same religion that saves - Damns You]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Individuals actually qualify independently to the NCAA championship. We have a number of individuals that I think have a great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Individuals actually qualify independently to the NCAA championship. We have a number of individuals that I think have a great opportunity in their hands to try to achieve that, which is a huge accomplishment in swimming.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61263]]></link><description><![CDATA[The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who ain't got an enemy is really poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13880]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who ain't got an enemy is really poor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis expectation makes a blessing dear; Heaven were not Heaven, if we knew what it were. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14635]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis expectation makes a blessing dear; Heaven were not Heaven, if we knew what it were.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man does not live for himself alone in this mortal body, in order to work on its account, but also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man does not live for himself alone in this mortal body, in order to work on its account, but also for all men on earth; nay, he lives only for others, and not for himself. For it is to this end that he brings his own body into subjection, that he may be able to serve others more sincerely and more freely... Thus it is impossible that he should take his ease in this life, and not work for the good of his neighbors, since he must needs speak, act, and converse among men, just as Christ... had His conversation among men... It is the part of a Christian to take care of his own body for the very purpose that by its soundness and wellbeing he may be enabled to labor... for the aid of those who are in want, that thus the stronger member may serve the weaker member, and we may be children of God, and busy for one another, bearing one another's burdens, and so fulfilling the law of Christ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're seeing it now with a big migration from Java to PHP in Web development. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41413]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're seeing it now with a big migration from Java to PHP in Web development.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64049]]></link><description><![CDATA[The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[F]ew things loves better Than to abhor himself-- . . . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15]]></link><description><![CDATA[[F]ew things loves better Than to abhor himself-- . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons when to take  Occasion by the hand, and make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57854]]></link><description><![CDATA[And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons when to take  Occasion by the hand, and make   The bounds of freedom wider yet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there is often times a lot of speculation about what is the real belief college students have about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40255]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there is often times a lot of speculation about what is the real belief college students have about the war in Iraq, and we're trying to give people that sort of information.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They thought it was outrageous. Then they started looking into it themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32331]]></link><description><![CDATA[They thought it was outrageous. Then they started looking into it themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2637]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He raised a mortal to the skies; She drew an angel down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20856]]></link><description><![CDATA[He raised a mortal to the skies; She drew an angel down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother loved children--she would have given anything if I had been one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5972]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother loved children--she would have given anything if I had been one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I get down on my knees, it is not to pray ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51943]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I get down on my knees, it is not to pray]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33885]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know what rock musicians are? They are hung up, neurotic, over-weight hippies with sex problems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19285]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know what rock musicians are? They are hung up, neurotic, over-weight hippies with sex problems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44147]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would rather have one man or woman working with us than three merely working for us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2123]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would rather have one man or woman working with us than three merely working for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2123</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://www.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://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28814</guid></item></channel></rss>