<?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[No such thing as a man willing to be honest -- that would be like a blind man willing to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19677]]></link><description><![CDATA[No such thing as a man willing to be honest -- that would be like a blind man willing to see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A substantial number of beneficiaries are already enrolled, but a lot turns on what those who are on the fence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34059]]></link><description><![CDATA[A substantial number of beneficiaries are already enrolled, but a lot turns on what those who are on the fence decide to do between now and May 15. If they stay out for now, some could face financial penalties down the road if they later change their mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44102]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By any measure, 2000 was a great year for Blockbuster, ... Building on the strength of 2000, we remain confident ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38633]]></link><description><![CDATA[By any measure, 2000 was a great year for Blockbuster, ... Building on the strength of 2000, we remain confident that we can continue generating solid cash earnings growth in 2001 and beyond, led by continued success in our retail store business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40477]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64613]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49256]]></link><description><![CDATA[France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zinzendorf and the Moravians proved that an entire communion of believers (call it a church or a denomination, if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zinzendorf and the Moravians proved that an entire communion of believers (call it a church or a denomination, if you will) can find reason for being solely on the basis of missions to the lost and unreached multitudes of the world. Their fellowship existed solely to send out laborers into the harvest. Everyone and everything pointed to that missionary purpose. For them, missions was not an adjunct to church life, it was church life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Male superiority in former days was easily demonstrated, because if a woman questioned her husband's he could beat her. From ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Male superiority in former days was easily demonstrated, because if a woman questioned her husband's he could beat her. From superiority in this respect others were thought to follow. Men were more reasonable than women, more inventive, less swayed b]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you are not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18797]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you are not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God strikes with his finger, and not with all his arme. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49277]]></link><description><![CDATA[God strikes with his finger, and not with all his arme.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The situation was great, because it is not far from where I grew up. And it was a program that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36640]]></link><description><![CDATA[The situation was great, because it is not far from where I grew up. And it was a program that I would be proud to be associated with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There, at the moated grange, resides this dejected Mariana. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55395]]></link><description><![CDATA[There, at the moated grange, resides this dejected Mariana. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever the form of adversity, many people find that they need help to sell their house fast. The urgency involved ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever the form of adversity, many people find that they need help to sell their house fast. The urgency involved requires an investor who knows exactly what to do when time is so critical.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know of no way of judging the future but by the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23534]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660  Words are merely carriers of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660  Words are merely carriers of the secret, supernatural communications, the light and call of God. That is why spiritual books bear such different meanings for different types and qualities of soul, why each time we read them they give us something fresh, as we can bear it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel happy because I won, but more because the team won and we needed to win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34788]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel happy because I won, but more because the team won and we needed to win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable;  A vile conceit in pompous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable;  A vile conceit in pompous words express'd,   Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a gentleman, though spoiled i' the breeding. The Buzzards are all gentlemen. We came with the Conqueror. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2479]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a gentleman, though spoiled i' the breeding. The Buzzards are all gentlemen. We came with the Conqueror.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health-care costs have been their No. 1 concern for 20 years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health-care costs have been their No. 1 concern for 20 years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[everyone out there stay there, everyone in the locker room, go to the ring, we're having a team meeting! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39815]]></link><description><![CDATA[everyone out there stay there, everyone in the locker room, go to the ring, we're having a team meeting!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27966]]></link><description><![CDATA[For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good luck befriend thee, Son; for at thy birth The fairy ladies danced upon the hearth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good luck befriend thee, Son; for at thy birth The fairy ladies danced upon the hearth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people say there is too much violence in [my books], what they are saying is there is too much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60677]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people say there is too much violence in [my books], what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treat your friend as if he will one day be your enemy, and your enemy as if he will one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Treat your friend as if he will one day be your enemy, and your enemy as if he will one day be your friend]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33131]]></link><description><![CDATA[From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just because your doctor has a name for your condition doesn't mean he knows what it is ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just because your doctor has a name for your condition doesn't mean he knows what it is]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a caldron, and at some point it's just going to boil over. We're at the edge, and this administration ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31860]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a caldron, and at some point it's just going to boil over. We're at the edge, and this administration and this Legislature need to do something before we lose (control of) a prison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65429]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the fact that a person has riches that keeps them from heaven, but the fact that riches ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53643]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the fact that a person has riches that keeps them from heaven, but the fact that riches have them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3332]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flower,--its bloom is shed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48691]]></link><description><![CDATA[But pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flower,--its bloom is shed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modern Americans are so exposed, peered at, inquired about, and spied upon as to be increasingly without privacy--members of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modern Americans are so exposed, peered at, inquired about, and spied upon as to be increasingly without privacy--members of a ;naked society and denizens of a goldfish bowl.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He must needs go that the devil drives. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55717]]></link><description><![CDATA[He must needs go that the devil drives. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And gentle Dulness ever loves a joke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50920]]></link><description><![CDATA[And gentle Dulness ever loves a joke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How did Jesus show his authority? Not by making vast claims for himself, though such claims were implicit. His authority ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7111]]></link><description><![CDATA[How did Jesus show his authority? Not by making vast claims for himself, though such claims were implicit. His authority seemed to reside in what he was and what he did rather than in what he specifically claimed to be. Especially in Mark's Gospel there is an elusive quality about his authority, the mystery of the hidden Messiah. His authority was at the same time most deeply hidden and most clearly expressed by his servanthood... The more the Church in its life shows forth the character of the Servant, the more will its teaching bear the marks of the authority of the Servant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's going to get boring before it gets exciting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38287]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's going to get boring before it gets exciting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leading indicators have been strong the last few months, and that's telling us we're going to see very strong acceleration ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leading indicators have been strong the last few months, and that's telling us we're going to see very strong acceleration in first-quarter growth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whom they have injured, they also hate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whom they have injured, they also hate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Autumn wood the aster knows, The empty nest, the wind that grieves,  The sunlight breaking thro' the shade, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3386]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Autumn wood the aster knows, The empty nest, the wind that grieves,  The sunlight breaking thro' the shade,   The squirrel chattering overhead,    The timid rabbits lighter tread     Among the rustling leaves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21788</guid></item></channel></rss>