<?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[There is a communion with God that asks for nothing, yet asks for everything... He who seeks the Father more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8172]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a communion with God that asks for nothing, yet asks for everything... He who seeks the Father more than anything He can give, is likely to have what he asks, for he is not likely to ask amiss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I look at life as a gift of God. Now that he wants it back I have no right to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11341]]></link><description><![CDATA[I look at life as a gift of God. Now that he wants it back I have no right to complain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All beasts of prey are strong or treacherous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49096]]></link><description><![CDATA[All beasts of prey are strong or treacherous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unbounded morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of diminishing returns ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unbounded morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of diminishing returns applies to morality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36267]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Novelty is the great parent of pleasure ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Novelty is the great parent of pleasure]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's exceedingly intelligent, very sharp, and he's got a great deal of humanity. I'm sure he will not pull any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29609]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's exceedingly intelligent, very sharp, and he's got a great deal of humanity. I'm sure he will not pull any punches. He'll express good taste.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You won't find candy bars in vending machines in our schools anywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40764]]></link><description><![CDATA[You won't find candy bars in vending machines in our schools anywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22050]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52993]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My husband was very enthusiastic, and my children are all investing. They have done some work with stock themselves because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36433]]></link><description><![CDATA[My husband was very enthusiastic, and my children are all investing. They have done some work with stock themselves because of our interest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole (global warming) thing is created to destroy America's free enterprise system and our economic stability ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17520]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole (global warming) thing is created to destroy America's free enterprise system and our economic stability]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blake is getting himself back in the swing. His last two rounds have been 39 and 38. Michael struggled in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blake is getting himself back in the swing. His last two rounds have been 39 and 38. Michael struggled in the last match, shooting 48, but he came back [Monday] with a 41.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Valencia has done an excellent job of building and guiding a very thoughtful and effective diversity and inclusion strategy at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Valencia has done an excellent job of building and guiding a very thoughtful and effective diversity and inclusion strategy at our company. Her long history of service at BellSouth and in the community combined with her breadth of business knowledge makes her a tremendous asset to this Board.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a lot of options out there that advertisers now have besides the 30-second commercial on network television, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30403]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a lot of options out there that advertisers now have besides the 30-second commercial on network television,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Globalization is a fact of life. But I believe we have underestimated its fragility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Globalization is a fact of life. But I believe we have underestimated its fragility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because they know not the forces of nature, and in order that they may have comrades in their ignorance, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because they know not the forces of nature, and in order that they may have comrades in their ignorance, they suffer not that others should search out anything, and would have us believe like rustics and ask no reason...But we ask in all things a reason must be sought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Service without reward is punishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49740]]></link><description><![CDATA[Service without reward is punishment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The swallow is come! The swallow is come!  O, fair are the seasons, and light   Are the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58435]]></link><description><![CDATA[The swallow is come! The swallow is come!  O, fair are the seasons, and light   Are the days that she brings,    With her dusky wings,     And her bosom snowy white!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's interesting because it's unusual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35919]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's interesting because it's unusual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64747]]></link><description><![CDATA[I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750   Let us go and wake up the universe... and sing His ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750   Let us go and wake up the universe... and sing His praises.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What drove him to it, who pushed him to it, I don't know, ... I wish I could find out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29900]]></link><description><![CDATA[What drove him to it, who pushed him to it, I don't know, ... I wish I could find out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am still progressing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15204]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am still progressing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What mare's nest hast thou found? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48618]]></link><description><![CDATA[What mare's nest hast thou found?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was something deep down inside I wanted to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37957]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was something deep down inside I wanted to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hug is a handshake from the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62885]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hug is a handshake from the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46334]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear stops a lot of people. Fear of failure, of the unknown, of risk. And it masks itself as procrastination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear stops a lot of people. Fear of failure, of the unknown, of risk. And it masks itself as procrastination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cultures are rubbing against each other more than ever before in history. We need to be sensitive to ... respect, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cultures are rubbing against each other more than ever before in history. We need to be sensitive to ... respect, honor, dignity, and how they are viewed in different societies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have compassion and surrender to your own heart, you are surrendering to the hidden power in your heart, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58382]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have compassion and surrender to your own heart, you are surrendering to the hidden power in your heart, God. You are surrendering to love, because God is Love, the cohesive force of the universe that connects us all. Surrender is not just a religious concept; it's a power tool for listening to the voice of your spirit and following its directions. When you surrender your head to your heart, you allow your heart to give you a wider, higher intelligence perspective. Remember the phrase, "The real teacher is within you." Very simply, that teacher is to be found in the common sense of your own heart. -Sara Paddison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46196]]></link><description><![CDATA[We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But chiefly Thou, Whom soft-eyed Pity once led down from Heaven  To bleed for man, to teach him how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6138]]></link><description><![CDATA[But chiefly Thou, Whom soft-eyed Pity once led down from Heaven  To bleed for man, to teach him how to live,   And, oh! still harder lesson! how to die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The old mayor climbed the belfry tower, The ringers ran by two, by three;  "Pull, if ye never pulled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4111]]></link><description><![CDATA[The old mayor climbed the belfry tower, The ringers ran by two, by three;  "Pull, if ye never pulled before;   Good ringers, pull your best," quoth he.    "Play uppe, play uppe, O Boston bells!     Ply all your changes, all your swells,      Play uppe The Brides of Enderby."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46814]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: "Sing for us soon again;" that is as much as to say, "May new sufferings torment your soul.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sailing round the world in a dirty gondola oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sailing round the world in a dirty gondola oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always behave like a duck- keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always behave like a duck- keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having well polished the whole bow, he added a golden tip. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having well polished the whole bow, he added a golden tip.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfection is our goal, excellence will be tolerated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfection is our goal, excellence will be tolerated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is unknown whether the patients had clearly expressed their intentions (for euthanasia), and I find it particularly problematic. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36527]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is unknown whether the patients had clearly expressed their intentions (for euthanasia), and I find it particularly problematic. We apologize for the concerns we have caused to our patients.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first duty of love is to listen. -Paul Tillich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25204]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first duty of love is to listen. -Paul Tillich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As cold as cucumbers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48515]]></link><description><![CDATA[As cold as cucumbers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The master of art or giver of wit, Their belly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13215]]></link><description><![CDATA[The master of art or giver of wit, Their belly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13215</guid></item></channel></rss>