<?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[They talk of the dignity of work. Bosh. The dignity is in leisure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24622]]></link><description><![CDATA[They talk of the dignity of work. Bosh. The dignity is in leisure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would have thee gone, And yet no further than a wanton's bird,  Who lets it hop a little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51471]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would have thee gone, And yet no further than a wanton's bird,  Who lets it hop a little from her hand,   Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves,    And with a silk thread plucks it back again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They can see this is a match made in heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37803]]></link><description><![CDATA[They can see this is a match made in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I came here today to listen and learn and report back to the president. I'm prepared ... to go back ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38116]]></link><description><![CDATA[I came here today to listen and learn and report back to the president. I'm prepared ... to go back and report to the president that these folks have done a great job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22028]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16787]]></link><description><![CDATA[One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17642]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35099]]></link><description><![CDATA[To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quality means doing it right when no one is looking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled; Mahomet called the hill to come to him, again and again, and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, "If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I saw one at $3.09, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38466]]></link><description><![CDATA[I saw one at $3.09,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are certain people whom one feels almost inclined to urge to hurry up and die so that their letters ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24646]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are certain people whom one feels almost inclined to urge to hurry up and die so that their letters can be published.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to walk than curse the road. - Wolof proverb, Senegal ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28497]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to walk than curse the road. - Wolof proverb, Senegal]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22041]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who plot the destruction of others often fall themselves. [Lat., Saepe intereunt aliis meditantes necem.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who plot the destruction of others often fall themselves. [Lat., Saepe intereunt aliis meditantes necem.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last year it moved late, so people sat in base camp all May just waiting for an opportunity to go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last year it moved late, so people sat in base camp all May just waiting for an opportunity to go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, so they have internet on computers now! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, so they have internet on computers now!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been a long time since a visit to America stopped being an infallible formula for strengthening the reputation of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41119]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been a long time since a visit to America stopped being an infallible formula for strengthening the reputation of European politicians. In the last decade, however, that contact with the American ally can result in at least as many headaches as it does advantages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got me girlfriend Hazel Jean, and I just like where I come from. But don't get me wrong, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36358]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got me girlfriend Hazel Jean, and I just like where I come from. But don't get me wrong, I love all the country, but I still love where I come from.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dance is the hidden language of the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dance is the hidden language of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You shine the light and you let them come out with their own words and they'll be exposed for what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39501]]></link><description><![CDATA[You shine the light and you let them come out with their own words and they'll be exposed for what they really are, which is ridiculous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the fog is rising. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24139]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the fog is rising.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[BA is strategically focusing on profitable traffic, and that means it's turning away a lot of people who are prepared ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31732]]></link><description><![CDATA[BA is strategically focusing on profitable traffic, and that means it's turning away a lot of people who are prepared to pay a decent fare to transfer,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9761]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62906]]></link><description><![CDATA[What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21330]]></link><description><![CDATA[A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded. That all the Apostles would have done as they did. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded. That all the Apostles would have done as they did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60235]]></link><description><![CDATA[What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The movie is really walking a very delicate line. Because I don't want to look like I'm condoning staying in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37202]]></link><description><![CDATA[The movie is really walking a very delicate line. Because I don't want to look like I'm condoning staying in a marriage like that. And I'm not saying that it's right that women at the time had no choice but to stay in the home and raise kids, but at the same time, I wanted to celebrate the fact that she was a deeply intelligent, insightful, strong woman who found joy in that situation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Tractarian, 1890  One secret act of self-denial, one sacrifice of inclination to duty, is worth all the mere good thoughts, warm feelings, passionate prayers, in which idle people indulge themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry, Of bugles going by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59676]]></link><description><![CDATA[The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry, Of bugles going by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, 1253  Thou knowest how far Thou hast already changed me, who first healed me of the lust of vindicating myself, that so Thou mightest forgive all the rest of my iniquities, and heal all my infirmities, and redeem my life from corruption, and crown me with mercy and pity, and satisfy my desire with good things; who didst curb my pride with Thy fear, and tame my neck to Thy yoke. And now I bear it and it is light unto me, because so hast Thou promised, and hast made it; and verily it was so, and I knew it not, when I feared to take it.  ... The Confessions of St. Augustine    October 10, 1999  Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644  Wilberforce, Lord Shaftesbury, and many other evangelicals, have been leaders in social reform, but it was not their religion. Their efforts succeeded because they put first things first, and believed firmly in the Word of God, in the conversion of the individual, in prayer, and in using spiritual means for spiritual work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn! Look to this Day! For it is Life,  The very Life of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn! Look to this Day! For it is Life,  The very Life of Life.   In its brief course lie all the Varieties    And Realities of your Existence;     The Bliss of Growth,      The Glory of Action,       The Splendor of Beauty;        For Yesterday is but a Dream,         And Tomorrow is only a Vision;          But Today well lived           Makes every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,            And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.             Look well therefore to this Day!              Such is the Salutation of Dawn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is spiritualized imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is spiritualized imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think this win will prove its value down the stretch. When you see what [other results] happened in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31657]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think this win will prove its value down the stretch. When you see what [other results] happened in the conference tonight, I think these will turn out to be three big points.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The middle class is becoming the working poor. If they have one tragic event -- illness, lost job or a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33381]]></link><description><![CDATA[The middle class is becoming the working poor. If they have one tragic event -- illness, lost job or a death -- they have need for the food bank.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14808]]></link><description><![CDATA[My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's one of the biggest problems with the system now. Vague regulations leave the system open to abuse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31696]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's one of the biggest problems with the system now. Vague regulations leave the system open to abuse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a bit of a surprise for us that we had problems in Hungary. But in reality, I think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34882]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a bit of a surprise for us that we had problems in Hungary. But in reality, I think the car could have been pretty competitive with a trouble-free race.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A difference of tastes in jokes is a great strain on the affections. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1628]]></link><description><![CDATA[A difference of tastes in jokes is a great strain on the affections.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesus Christ came to tell men that they have no enemies but themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesus Christ came to tell men that they have no enemies but themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's trying, but you only have to go through it one time. Anything for my chance. I want them to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39142]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's trying, but you only have to go through it one time. Anything for my chance. I want them to know that I will sacrifice my body to do whatever they ask me to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He did not know if he was allowed to celebrate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40193]]></link><description><![CDATA[He did not know if he was allowed to celebrate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have ploughed the vast ocean in a fragile bark. [Lat., Nos fragili vastum ligno sulcavimus aequor.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44005]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have ploughed the vast ocean in a fragile bark. [Lat., Nos fragili vastum ligno sulcavimus aequor.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44005</guid></item></channel></rss>