<?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[Income and sales taxes are both collected in dribs and drabs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Income and sales taxes are both collected in dribs and drabs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is not magnetic personality-that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is not magnetic personality-that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing people"-that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. -Peter F. Drucker.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be intent upon the perfection of the present day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy wife is a constellation of virtues; she's the moon, and thou art the man in the moon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy wife is a constellation of virtues; she's the moon, and thou art the man in the moon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up rose the wild old winter-king, And shook his beard of snow;  "I hear the first young hard-bell ring, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Up rose the wild old winter-king, And shook his beard of snow;  "I hear the first young hard-bell ring,   'Tis time for me to go!    Northward o'er the icy rocks,     Northward o'er the sea,      My daughter comes with sunny locks:       This land's too warm for me!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ground is shifting radically under the pressure of newly documented claims. While there may not be a single clear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42309]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ground is shifting radically under the pressure of newly documented claims. While there may not be a single clear solution for every claim, institutions will need to be forthright in explaining future acquisitions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Las Vegas looks the way you'd imagine heaven must look at night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Las Vegas looks the way you'd imagine heaven must look at night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consenting to slavery is a sacrilegious breach of trust, as offensive in the sight of God as it is derogatory ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consenting to slavery is a sacrilegious breach of trust, as offensive in the sight of God as it is derogatory from our own honor or interest of happiness]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46311]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; that they are showing the way when they are running away; that they see the light when they feel the heat; that they are chosen when they are shunned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, "Action," and which was the second, he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45243]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, "Action," and which was the second, he replied, "action," and which was the third, he still answered "Action."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is a fool Who only sees the mischiefs that are past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16341]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is a fool Who only sees the mischiefs that are past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There shall be no more snow No weary noontide heat,  So we lift our trusting eyes   From ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17089]]></link><description><![CDATA[There shall be no more snow No weary noontide heat,  So we lift our trusting eyes   From the hills our Fathers trod:    To the quiet of the skies:     To the Sabbath of our God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was harder racing the track today than it was the competition. The heat was a factor and it had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30347]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was harder racing the track today than it was the competition. The heat was a factor and it had an effect on the racing. It's hard to sit there and run lap after lap without any relief. And today, there wasn't any relief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience — the union of life and peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience — the union of life and peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19263]]></link><description><![CDATA[A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that action, not words, are the true criterion of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/402]]></link><description><![CDATA[A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that action, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment to friends; and that the most liberal professions of good-will are very far from being the surest marks of it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So let us begin anew - remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56426]]></link><description><![CDATA[So let us begin anew - remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump: you may be freeing him from being a camel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump: you may be freeing him from being a camel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nearer, my God, to Thee-- Nearer to Thee--  E'en though it be a cross   That raiseth me; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nearer, my God, to Thee-- Nearer to Thee--  E'en though it be a cross   That raiseth me;    Still all my song shall be     Nearer, my God, to Thee,      Nearer to Thee!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a simple Buddhist monk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4962]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a simple Buddhist monk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With this rescue in West Virginia , I feel even more helpless because I'm here, and not doing much other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30208]]></link><description><![CDATA[With this rescue in West Virginia , I feel even more helpless because I'm here, and not doing much other than praying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those presents are the most acceptable which are enhanced by our regard for the donor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those presents are the most acceptable which are enhanced by our regard for the donor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Teacher, Martyr, 1945   Furthermore, [the unchristian environment] is the place where we find out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Teacher, Martyr, 1945   Furthermore, [the unchristian environment] is the place where we find out whether the Christian's meditation has led him into the unreal, from which he awakens in terror when he returns to the workaday world, or whether it has led him into a real contact with God, from which he emerges strengthened and purified. Has it transported him for a moment into a spiritual ecstasy that vanishes when everyday life returns, or has it lodged the Word of God so securely and deeply in his heart that it holds and fortifies him, impelling him to active love, to obedience, to good works? Only the day can decide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, wisdom is not truth, truth is not beauty, beauty is not love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, wisdom is not truth, truth is not beauty, beauty is not love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course, there are political complications in Haiti, too, ... But when people are basically unhappy because they don't have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course, there are political complications in Haiti, too, ... But when people are basically unhappy because they don't have a good way of life, they don't have a job, it's often related to too many people and too few opportunities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth, 'tis supposed, may bear all lights; and one those principal lights or natural mediums by which things are to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth, 'tis supposed, may bear all lights; and one those principal lights or natural mediums by which things are to be viewed in order to a thorough recognition is ridicule itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slander is worse than cannibalism ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slander is worse than cannibalism]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain  Of finite hearts that yearn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain  Of finite hearts that yearn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6151]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for them to happen. Life will reveal answers at the pace life wishes to do so. You feel like running, but life is on a stroll. This is how God does things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever they recommend, he will do. Nobody ordered him to do it. He did it on his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever they recommend, he will do. Nobody ordered him to do it. He did it on his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In his address of 19 September 1796, given as he prepared to leave office, President George Washington spoke about the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60281]]></link><description><![CDATA[In his address of 19 September 1796, given as he prepared to leave office, President George Washington spoke about the importance of morality to the country's well-being: Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports.... And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.... Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56593]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are bombs the only way of setting fire to the spirit of a people? Is the human will as inert ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are bombs the only way of setting fire to the spirit of a people? Is the human will as inert as the past two world-wide wars would indicate?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am his mistress. His work is his wife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22205]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am his mistress. His work is his wife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a lot of sympathy and we give him the maximum moral and technical support. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32603]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a lot of sympathy and we give him the maximum moral and technical support.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Distance tests a horse's strength. Time reveals a person's character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Distance tests a horse's strength. Time reveals a person's character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a great concept. I saw this house in the fall on a night tour and it's just amazing to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40438]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a great concept. I saw this house in the fall on a night tour and it's just amazing to see it now, just a few months later.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fault is sooner found than mended. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44199]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fault is sooner found than mended.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew there was going to be some serious hitting going on, but I tell you what. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37469]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew there was going to be some serious hitting going on, but I tell you what.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who won't be ruled by the rudder must be ruled by the rock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50988]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who won't be ruled by the rudder must be ruled by the rock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider well what your shoulders are able to bear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider well what your shoulders are able to bear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50203</guid></item></channel></rss>