<?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[Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been thesystematic organization of hatreds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been thesystematic organization of hatreds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44802]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8199]]></link><description><![CDATA[How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned not to blink in a close-up or move your head at all, because if you did, they wouldn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35101]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned not to blink in a close-up or move your head at all, because if you did, they wouldn't use it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old Lady of Threadneedle Street. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old Lady of Threadneedle Street.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no living with thee, nor without thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25763]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no living with thee, nor without thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're happy for the attention. But the poor people who ride in our cabs every day, they built this company ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39476]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're happy for the attention. But the poor people who ride in our cabs every day, they built this company and they keep us rolling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65621]]></link><description><![CDATA[For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed with rapture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nay, but do so then; and look you, he may come and go between you both; and in any case ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nay, but do so then; and look you, he may come and go between you both; and in any case have a nay-word, that you may know one another's mind, and the boy never need to understand anything; for 'tis not good that children should know any wickedness. Old folks, you know, have discretion, as they say, and know the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just another layer of protection for the residents, ... You're preserving property values. You pay into a fund that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40090]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just another layer of protection for the residents, ... You're preserving property values. You pay into a fund that makes everybody's property values higher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who come up with "It may not work" or "What are we going to do if it fails?" do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21741]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who come up with "It may not work" or "What are we going to do if it fails?" do not have the credentials to be businessmen. If there is only a 1 percent chance of success, a true businessperson sees that 1 percent as the spark to light a fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too rigid scruples are concealed pride. [Ger., Zu strenge Ford'rung ist verborgner Stolz.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too rigid scruples are concealed pride. [Ger., Zu strenge Ford'rung ist verborgner Stolz.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12326]]></link><description><![CDATA[A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told;  Many a man his life hath sold; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61425]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told;  Many a man his life hath sold;   But my outside to behold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel that the most important step in any major accomplishment is setting a specific goal. This enables you to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17619]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel that the most important step in any major accomplishment is setting a specific goal. This enables you to keep your mind focused on your goal and off the many obstacles that will arise when you're striving to do your best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tried to pick us up by just getting tip-ins and rebounds and putting it back up and trying to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28889]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tried to pick us up by just getting tip-ins and rebounds and putting it back up and trying to get fouled. They're big but it doesn't really matter how big they are ? you've got to rebound and go back up with the ball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2517]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our growth has been quite measured. It's never been our intent to impose a lot of restaurants on the world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our growth has been quite measured. It's never been our intent to impose a lot of restaurants on the world but rather to keep pace with the demand for our food. We've very methodically entered new markets and built in our existing markets based on the demand and what our opportunity has been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This bombastic announcement is open defiance of what the international community is asking from Iran. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32995]]></link><description><![CDATA[This bombastic announcement is open defiance of what the international community is asking from Iran.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nike is a marketing machine with a culture that has developed over 30-plus years, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nike is a marketing machine with a culture that has developed over 30-plus years,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our life's a flying shadow, God's the pole, The index pointing at Him is our soul;  Death the horizon, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our life's a flying shadow, God's the pole, The index pointing at Him is our soul;  Death the horizon, when our sun is set,   Which will through Christ a resurrection get.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place it stinks like hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54364]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65645]]></link><description><![CDATA[People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4302]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never met a person, I don't care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities. I don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5587]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never met a person, I don't care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities. I don't care how much a man may ;consider himself a failure, I believe in him, for he can change the thing that is wrong in his life any time he is ready and prepared to do it. Whenever he develops the desire, he can take away from his life the thing that is defeating it. The capacity for reformation and change lies within.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[90% of the people in the stock market, professionals and amateurs alike, simply haven't done enough homework. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15838]]></link><description><![CDATA[90% of the people in the stock market, professionals and amateurs alike, simply haven't done enough homework.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolutions never go backward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revolutions never go backward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, A Loaf of Bread, and Thou  Beside me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45467]]></link><description><![CDATA[A book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, A Loaf of Bread, and Thou  Beside me singing in the Wilderness--   On, Wilderness were Paradise enow!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd two-legged thing, a son. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20906]]></link><description><![CDATA[And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd two-legged thing, a son.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Mason Neale, Priest, Poet, 1866   Think it not hard if you get not your will, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Mason Neale, Priest, Poet, 1866   Think it not hard if you get not your will, nor your delights in this life; God will have you to rejoice in nothing but himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really think being at home helped. This is a big part of the season, with a lot of home ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36037]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really think being at home helped. This is a big part of the season, with a lot of home games coming up. It feels good to come home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After doing this, going away, trying other things and working on other shows, this character, and working within Days of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42229]]></link><description><![CDATA[After doing this, going away, trying other things and working on other shows, this character, and working within Days of Our Lives, has been one of the most enjoyable experiences in my career.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity... I don't want to look like a little old man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35164]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity... I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5273]]></link><description><![CDATA[The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644   The common custom is, when the physician has given over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644   The common custom is, when the physician has given over his patient, then and not till then to send for the minister, not so much to inquire into the man's condition and to give him suitable advice as to minister comfort and to speak peace to him at a venture. But let me tell you that herein you put an extremely difficult task upon us, in expecting that we should pour wine and oil into the wound before it be searched, and speak smooth and comfortable things to a man that is but just brought to a sense of the long course of a lewd and wicked life impenitently continued in. Alas! what comfort can we give to men in such a case? We are loth to drive them to despair; and yet we must not destroy them by presumption; pity and good nature do strongly tempt us to make the best of their case and to give them all the little hopes which with any kind of reason we can --and God knows it is but very little that we can give to such persons upon good ground, for it all depends upon the degree and sincerity of their repentance, which God only knows, and we can but guess at.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who works for the gold in the job rather than for the money in the pay envelope, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17798]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who works for the gold in the job rather than for the money in the pay envelope, is the fellow who gets on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character must be kept bright as well as clean. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character must be kept bright as well as clean.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1165</guid></item></channel></rss>