<?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[It works exceedingly well. We have the perfect spot on the rise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38144]]></link><description><![CDATA[It works exceedingly well. We have the perfect spot on the rise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To look into that persons eyes and find yourself so completely lost in another world, a world full of absolute ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25770]]></link><description><![CDATA[To look into that persons eyes and find yourself so completely lost in another world, a world full of absolute comfort and happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The religious desire and effort of the soul to relate itself and all its interest to God and his will, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6574]]></link><description><![CDATA[The religious desire and effort of the soul to relate itself and all its interest to God and his will, is prayer in the deepest sense. This is essential prayer: uttered or unexpressed, it is equally prayer. It is the soul's desire after God going forth in a manifestation, ... the soul striving after God. This is a prayer that may exist without ceasing, consisting, as it does, not in doing or saying this or that, but in temper and attitude of the spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a star in the West that shall never go down Till the records of Valour decay,  We must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61240]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a star in the West that shall never go down Till the records of Valour decay,  We must worship its light though it is not our own,   For liberty burst in its ray.    Shall the name of a Washington ever be heard     By a freeman, and thrill not his breast?      Is there one out of bondage that hails not the word,       As a Bethlehem Star of the West?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strong of his hands, and strong on his legs, but still of his tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strong of his hands, and strong on his legs, but still of his tongue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think truly, and thy thoughts Shall the world's famine feed.  Speak truly, and each word of thine   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think truly, and thy thoughts Shall the world's famine feed.  Speak truly, and each word of thine   Shall be a fruitful seed.    Live truly, and thy life shall be     A great and noble creed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've seen Danny much better, but he's such a dominating diver. Even when he's off, he's still the best around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34217]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've seen Danny much better, but he's such a dominating diver. Even when he's off, he's still the best around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For fools admire, but me of sense approve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/613]]></link><description><![CDATA[For fools admire, but me of sense approve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today we live a sad moment, all the Muslims of France, because he who touches a human life touches the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today we live a sad moment, all the Muslims of France, because he who touches a human life touches the life of humanity as a whole,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument  About it and about: but evermore ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument  About it and about: but evermore   Came out by the same door wherein I went.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk, and laughter to transcend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk, and laughter to transcend the gifts of Nature]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is never death because they live in your heart foever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11218]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is never death because they live in your heart foever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am closing my 52 years of military service. When I joined the army, even before the turn of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54064]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am closing my 52 years of military service. When I joined the army, even before the turn of the century, it was the fulfillment of all my boyish hopes and dreams. The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point, and the hopes and dreams have long since vanished, but I still remember the refrain of one of the most barracks ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away.  And like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man.  When Duty whispers low, Thou must, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13052]]></link><description><![CDATA[So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man.  When Duty whispers low, Thou must,   The youth replies, I can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignore it. No answer is necessary, Your Excellency. The president does not know his place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignore it. No answer is necessary, Your Excellency. The president does not know his place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadayssaying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17895]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadayssaying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who seeks one thing in life, and but one, May hope to achieve it before life be done; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2331]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who seeks one thing in life, and but one, May hope to achieve it before life be done;  But he who seeks all things, wherever he goes,   Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows    A harvest of barren regrets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Freedom's battle once begun, Bequeath'd by bleeding sire to son,  Though baffled oft is ever won. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16668]]></link><description><![CDATA[For Freedom's battle once begun, Bequeath'd by bleeding sire to son,  Though baffled oft is ever won.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never let formal education get in the way of your learning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are looking as fresh as paint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27650]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are looking as fresh as paint.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bird that soars on highest wing, Builds on the ground her lowly nest;  And she that doth most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24098]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bird that soars on highest wing, Builds on the ground her lowly nest;  And she that doth most sweetly sing,   Sings in the shade when all things rest:    In lark and nightingale we see     What honor hath humility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3233]]></link><description><![CDATA[I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12089]]></link><description><![CDATA[No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hurry it up you Hoosier bastard! I could hang a dozen men while you're screwing around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hurry it up you Hoosier bastard! I could hang a dozen men while you're screwing around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(We) just had to come together as a team and focus to pick up the intensity, on defense especially. You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41037]]></link><description><![CDATA[(We) just had to come together as a team and focus to pick up the intensity, on defense especially. You know, we created some turnovers. We changed the tempo of the game in the second half.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If punishment makes not the will supple it hardens the offender. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52580]]></link><description><![CDATA[If punishment makes not the will supple it hardens the offender.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are never a loser until you quit trying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10417]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are never a loser until you quit trying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They said they'd pass the information on and they'd have it cleaned up. I guess when I called the police, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39051]]></link><description><![CDATA[They said they'd pass the information on and they'd have it cleaned up. I guess when I called the police, they passed it on to the highway department.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If little else, the brain is an educational toy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13473]]></link><description><![CDATA[If little else, the brain is an educational toy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take no repulse, whatever she doth say; For 'get you gone,' she doth not mean 'away.'  Flatter and praise, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take no repulse, whatever she doth say; For 'get you gone,' she doth not mean 'away.'  Flatter and praise, commend, extol their graces;   Though ne'er so black, say they have angels' faces.    That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man,     If with his tongue he cannot win a woman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60696]]></link><description><![CDATA[All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3117]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63572]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beauty of success lies not solely in your happiness. But also in ensuring that you stop to help those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62913]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beauty of success lies not solely in your happiness. But also in ensuring that you stop to help those along your life's path become champions in their lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Princess and the Pea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36287]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Princess and the Pea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God dropped a spark down into everyone, And if we find and fan it to a blaze,  It'll spring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53821]]></link><description><![CDATA[God dropped a spark down into everyone, And if we find and fan it to a blaze,  It'll spring up and glow, like--like the sun,   And light the wandering out of stony ways.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would like to do more acquisitions within our geographic footprint. We think those make sense at the right price, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36615]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would like to do more acquisitions within our geographic footprint. We think those make sense at the right price, but frankly we're not going to do those if they don't make sense from a price point of view.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and Infidels adore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and Infidels adore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better. The words of a wise man's mouth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better. The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no pain you are recedingA distant ship, smoke on the horizon.You are only coming through in waves.Your lips ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15471]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no pain you are recedingA distant ship, smoke on the horizon.You are only coming through in waves.Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying.When I was a child I had a feverMy hands felt just like two balloons.Now I've got that feeling once againI can't explain you would not understandThis is not how I am.I have become comfortably numb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Haste, holy Friar, Haste, ere the sinner shall expire!  Of all his guilt let him be shriven,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Haste, holy Friar, Haste, ere the sinner shall expire!  Of all his guilt let him be shriven,   And smooth his path from earth to heaven!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thank God for my handicaps, for, through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58981]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thank God for my handicaps, for, through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58981</guid></item></channel></rss>