<?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[Think, oh, grateful think! How good the God of Harvest is to you;  Who pours abundance o'er your flowing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think, oh, grateful think! How good the God of Harvest is to you;  Who pours abundance o'er your flowing fields,   While those unhappy partners of you kind    Wide-hover round you, like the fowls of heaven,     And ask their humble dole.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let it rise! let it rise, till it meet the sum in his coming; let the earliest light of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let it rise! let it rise, till it meet the sum in his coming; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and the parting day linger and play on its summit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59192]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over the shoulders and slopes of the dune I saw the white daisies go down to the sea,  A ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over the shoulders and slopes of the dune I saw the white daisies go down to the sea,  A host in the sunshine, an army in June,   The people God sends us to set our heart free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All have disappointments, all have times when it isn't worthwhile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12373]]></link><description><![CDATA[All have disappointments, all have times when it isn't worthwhile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And that was the way The deuce was to pay  As it always is, at the close of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19572]]></link><description><![CDATA[And that was the way The deuce was to pay  As it always is, at the close of the day   That gave us--    Hurray! Hurray! Hurray!     (With some restrictions, the fault-finders say)      That which, please God, we will keep for aye       Our National Independence!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My nearest And dearest enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13858]]></link><description><![CDATA[My nearest And dearest enemy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persuasion is better than force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persuasion is better than force.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10226]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing I have the most problem with is consistency. We saw it already. The equipment isn't consistent from brand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32959]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing I have the most problem with is consistency. We saw it already. The equipment isn't consistent from brand to brand and from goaltender to goaltender. I would like to see that changed. Some pads were wider than others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age is . . . a lot of crossed off names in an address book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age is . . . a lot of crossed off names in an address book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tobacco operating fundamentals sequentially strengthened from the first to the second quarter, and third-quarter performance generally retained that stronger momentum. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tobacco operating fundamentals sequentially strengthened from the first to the second quarter, and third-quarter performance generally retained that stronger momentum. Results are also particularly encouraging, in our view, given Kraft's continued weak and disappointing overall operating performance...[Philip Morris USA] is delivering an improved balance of market share and operating profit performance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I value the privacy of my home and personal life extremely highly and am prepared to take appropriate measures to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42049]]></link><description><![CDATA[I value the privacy of my home and personal life extremely highly and am prepared to take appropriate measures to protect it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The love of glory gives an immense stimulus. [Lat., Immensum gloria calcar habet.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17556]]></link><description><![CDATA[The love of glory gives an immense stimulus. [Lat., Immensum gloria calcar habet.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children make the most desirable opponents in Scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children make the most desirable opponents in Scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888   In his experience of God, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888   In his experience of God, a Christian has a strong sense of his individuality, never of his unity with God. Expressed more sharply, he has a strong sense of the Creator-creature distinction, never of merging or absorption. Or, to put it more sharply still, a Christian has a sense of his moral sin and not just of his metaphysical smallness in the face of the beyond. The dilemma for man is not who he is but what he has done. His predicament is not that he is small, but that he is sinful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is learning what to overlook. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is learning what to overlook.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10799]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8946]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought in my brain- you might ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24381]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought in my brain- you might send a ball rolling through it!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This line of defense does come with a price. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32965]]></link><description><![CDATA[This line of defense does come with a price.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With such a concentration of opportunity, customers and partners, having a second BPIC is a winning strategy. Customers can come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33853]]></link><description><![CDATA[With such a concentration of opportunity, customers and partners, having a second BPIC is a winning strategy. Customers can come and rather than hear about a solution, they can see it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65390]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never wedding, ever wooing, Still a lovelorn heart pursuing,  Read you not the wrong you're doing   In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never wedding, ever wooing, Still a lovelorn heart pursuing,  Read you not the wrong you're doing   In my cheek's pale hue?    All my life with sorrow strewing;     Wed or cease to woo.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1741]]></link><description><![CDATA[None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is fraud to conceal fraud ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16628]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is fraud to conceal fraud]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let sleep itself be an exercise in piety, for such as our life and conduct have been, so also of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let sleep itself be an exercise in piety, for such as our life and conduct have been, so also of necessity will be our dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given a choice between two theories, take the one which is funnier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given a choice between two theories, take the one which is funnier.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27586]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, how much further wilt thou lead me?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life,  And live a coward in thine own esteem, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life,  And live a coward in thine own esteem,   Letting 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would,'    Like the poor cat i' th' adage?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think they just wrestled hard. The guys who won, the guys who lost, every single one of them wrestled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28352]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think they just wrestled hard. The guys who won, the guys who lost, every single one of them wrestled tough. Windsor is a well-coached team. We knew they were going to come in and just get after us. In order to prevent that, we've got to make sure we're even more prepared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47097]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state. The history of the West, from the age of the Greek polis down to the present-day resistance to socialism, is essentially the history of the fight for liberty against the encroachments of the officeholders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59222]]></link><description><![CDATA[We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Employ thy time well if thou meanest to get leisure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Employ thy time well if thou meanest to get leisure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3302]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.' - "London Magazine", March, 1967.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love develops through friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love develops through friendship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our earth is but a small star in a great universe. Yet of it we can make, if we choose, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our earth is but a small star in a great universe. Yet of it we can make, if we choose, a planet unvexed by war, untroubled by hunger or fear, undivided by senseless distinctions of race, color or theory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With his own weapon do I stab him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51756]]></link><description><![CDATA[With his own weapon do I stab him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fish and visitors stink after three days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fish and visitors stink after three days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You would be, sweet madam, if your miseries were in the same abundance as your good fortunes are; and yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13268]]></link><description><![CDATA[You would be, sweet madam, if your miseries were in the same abundance as your good fortunes are; and yet for aught I see, they are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He really didn't know what to do in offenses and defenses. But he was still successful. I saw promise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35370]]></link><description><![CDATA[He really didn't know what to do in offenses and defenses. But he was still successful. I saw promise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35370</guid></item></channel></rss>