<?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[All summer she scattered the daisy leaves; They only mocked her as they fell.  She said: "The daisy but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10992]]></link><description><![CDATA[All summer she scattered the daisy leaves; They only mocked her as they fell.  She said: "The daisy but deceives;   'He loves me not,' 'he loves me will,'    One story no two daisies tell."     Ah foolish heart, which waits and grieves      Under the daisy's mocking spell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16476]]></link><description><![CDATA[God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14698]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a great time on the floor, though we had a few bobbles. We were so relaxed. By that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42385]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a great time on the floor, though we had a few bobbles. We were so relaxed. By that time, we knew we had it won.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20446]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To cut a whetstone with a razor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48545]]></link><description><![CDATA[To cut a whetstone with a razor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4953]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, so shall he drink, for George again. Yet he shall hear on't, and tightly, too, an' I live, i'faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of them seem to convince themselves that this is a relationship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of them seem to convince themselves that this is a relationship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26576]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3235]]></link><description><![CDATA[To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just don't know why people would want to buy new furniture today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40749]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just don't know why people would want to buy new furniture today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have taken all knowledge to be my province. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52384]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have taken all knowledge to be my province.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't know what the numbers were, but I knew I needed to hit some shots. Then I realized I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31079]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't know what the numbers were, but I knew I needed to hit some shots. Then I realized I was going off all by myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When he said that, I believed him, that he didn't send me here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36311]]></link><description><![CDATA[When he said that, I believed him, that he didn't send me here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From fibers of pain and hope and trouble And toil and happiness,--one by one,--  Twisted together, or single or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11128]]></link><description><![CDATA[From fibers of pain and hope and trouble And toil and happiness,--one by one,--  Twisted together, or single or double,   The varying thread of our life is spun.    Hope shall cheer though the chain be galling;     Light shall come though the gloom be falling;      Faith will list for the Master calling       Our hearts to his rest,--when the day is done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61548]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Old Woman and the Wine-JarAn old woman found an empty jar which had lately been full of prime old ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1597]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Old Woman and the Wine-JarAn old woman found an empty jar which had lately been full of prime old wine and which still retained the fragrant smell of its former contents. She greedily placed it several times to her nose, and drawing it backwards and forwards said, O most delicious! How nice must the Wine itself have been, when it leaves behind in the very vessel which contained it so sweet a perfume! The memory of a good deed lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rugged the breast that music cannot tame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rugged the breast that music cannot tame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feares are divided in the midst. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feares are divided in the midst.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Risk assessment has not proven itself infallible. A lot of this is subjective. We want to ensure that the community ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Risk assessment has not proven itself infallible. A lot of this is subjective. We want to ensure that the community has as much information as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who seeks vengeance must dig two graves: one for his enemy and one for himself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13814]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who seeks vengeance must dig two graves: one for his enemy and one for himself]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47572]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free ourselves from the responsibility for acts which are prompted by our own questionable inclinations and impulses. Both the strong and the weak grasp at this alibi. The latter hide their malevolence under the virtue of obedience: they acted dishonorably because they had to obey orders. The strong, too, claim absolution by proclaiming themselves the chosen instrument of a higher power- God, history, fate, nation or humanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn... and change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13554]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn... and change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is to the soul what health is to the body ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is to the soul what health is to the body]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wasn't born with enough middle fingers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58472]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wasn't born with enough middle fingers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The game was closer than the score indicated.(after a 1-0 game) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57651]]></link><description><![CDATA[The game was closer than the score indicated.(after a 1-0 game)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58768]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1926]]></link><description><![CDATA[My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prophet's mantle, ere his flight began, Dropt on the world--a sacred gift to man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48449]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prophet's mantle, ere his flight began, Dropt on the world--a sacred gift to man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr, c.155  We may search so far, and reason so long of faith ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr, c.155  We may search so far, and reason so long of faith and grace, as that we may lose not only them, but even our reason too, and sooner become mad than good. Not that we are bound to believe any thing against reason, that is, to believe, we know not why. It is but a slack opinion, it is not Belief, that is not grounded upon Reason. It is true, we have not a Demonstration; not such an Evidence as that one and two are three, to prove these to be Scriptures of God; God hath not proceeded in that manner, to drive our reason into a pound, and to force it by a peremptory necessity to accept these for Scriptures, for then, here had been no exercise of our Will, and our assent, if we could not have resisted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men's minds are raised to the level of the women with whom they associate ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men's minds are raised to the level of the women with whom they associate]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, andabundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21519]]></link><description><![CDATA[I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, andabundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, theywill keep getting a busy signal-and soon they'll forget my number.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66817]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't invest in R&D, you're going to get left behind, because all the other companies are doing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30060]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't invest in R&D, you're going to get left behind, because all the other companies are doing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A free market is by far the best for the consumer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35320]]></link><description><![CDATA[A free market is by far the best for the consumer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each man to his stool, with that spur as he would to the lip of his mistress. Your diet shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each man to his stool, with that spur as he would to the lip of his mistress. Your diet shall be in all places alike; make not a City feast of it, to let the meat cool ere we can agree upon the first place; sit, sit. The gods require our thanks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63948]]></link><description><![CDATA[The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself; hence it remains the favorite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11471]]></link><description><![CDATA[True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself; hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some days you're the dog; some days you're the hydrant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some days you're the dog; some days you're the hydrant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the highest award you can receive in the council. Basically Dave is very deserving of the award for his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37656]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the highest award you can receive in the council. Basically Dave is very deserving of the award for his dedication to the program, and he really enjoys working with the boys.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we don't knock it back now it's just going to get worse and worse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33558]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we don't knock it back now it's just going to get worse and worse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The great questions of the day] are not decided by speeches and majority votes, but by blood and iron. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52759]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The great questions of the day] are not decided by speeches and majority votes, but by blood and iron.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52759</guid></item></channel></rss>