<?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[Will is character in action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Will is character in action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow'd perhaps by a smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58794]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow'd perhaps by a smile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A golden key will open every lock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23687]]></link><description><![CDATA[A golden key will open every lock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness. [Lat., Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21026]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness. [Lat., Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66278]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rowe's Rule: the odds are five to six that the light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rowe's Rule: the odds are five to six that the light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real problem is structural: retail consolidation, difficulties in the classified auto space and competition from other media. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34222]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real problem is structural: retail consolidation, difficulties in the classified auto space and competition from other media.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us; to develop, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13409]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us; to develop, to their fullest extent, the capacities of every kind with which the God who made us has endowed us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is a place, a time, a consciousness, in which there is no love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is a place, a time, a consciousness, in which there is no love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22807]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others. -Joseph Addison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63024]]></link><description><![CDATA[No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They can call me crazy if I fail, all the chance that I need, is one-in-a-million and they can call ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44094]]></link><description><![CDATA[They can call me crazy if I fail, all the chance that I need, is one-in-a-million and they can call me brilliant if I succeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some people who knock the pyramids because they don't have elevators. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1236]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some people who knock the pyramids because they don't have elevators.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's nice to be honored, to work my butt off and have it pay off. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29064]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's nice to be honored, to work my butt off and have it pay off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou hast wounded the spirit that loved thee And cherish'd thine image for years;  Thou hast taught me at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou hast wounded the spirit that loved thee And cherish'd thine image for years;  Thou hast taught me at last to forget thee,   In secret, in silence, and tears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our native land attracts us with some mysterious charm, never to be forgotten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our native land attracts us with some mysterious charm, never to be forgotten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The overwhelming recognition of human sin controls the Old Testament and the New Testament alike, and no understanding of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6608]]></link><description><![CDATA[The overwhelming recognition of human sin controls the Old Testament and the New Testament alike, and no understanding of our Lord's words and actions is possible if we persist in denying it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sagacious reader who is capable of reading between these lines what does not stand written in them, but is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53011]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sagacious reader who is capable of reading between these lines what does not stand written in them, but is nevertheless implied, will be able to form some conception.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them. [It., Non mancano pretesti quando si vuole.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them. [It., Non mancano pretesti quando si vuole.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The death of junk e-mail will come from a social reason, ... One of two things will happen: No one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34604]]></link><description><![CDATA[The death of junk e-mail will come from a social reason, ... One of two things will happen: No one will check their e-mail boxes, or junkers will know no one is reading their e-mail. Either way, the message is not being delivered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wanted more teeth in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40397]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted more teeth in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This would be one time to take it to a commercial car wash. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40430]]></link><description><![CDATA[This would be one time to take it to a commercial car wash.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14461]]></link><description><![CDATA[To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals -- and critics of the Women's Movement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must look into people, as well as at them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5666]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must look into people, as well as at them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was better than the last one. He spotted the ball exceptionally well and kept the ball down, throwing all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30460]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was better than the last one. He spotted the ball exceptionally well and kept the ball down, throwing all of his pitches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10792]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4329]]></link><description><![CDATA[My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christ didn't waste his time trying to change the social order. Christ spent all his time fighting sin. Therefore it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christ didn't waste his time trying to change the social order. Christ spent all his time fighting sin. Therefore it behooves the witnesses of Christ to say that we do not have to abolish capitalism and establish socialism or communism, that sin can flourish under those systems as well. Christianity is not opposed to any social order, but to sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11866]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He ceased: but left so charming on their ear His voice, that listening still they seemed to hear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60913]]></link><description><![CDATA[He ceased: but left so charming on their ear His voice, that listening still they seemed to hear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've played with a lot of these guys. They know I've had my struggles over there. They say if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35268]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've played with a lot of these guys. They know I've had my struggles over there. They say if you keep pushing forward, working hard, plays like that are the reward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a mortal, thou must nourish each of two forebodings--that tomorrow's sunlight will be the last that thou shalt see; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24841]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a mortal, thou must nourish each of two forebodings--that tomorrow's sunlight will be the last that thou shalt see; and that for fifty years wilt live out thy life in ample wealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is an island entire of itself; every man is part of the main ... Any man's death diminishes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26276]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is an island entire of itself; every man is part of the main ... Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked. [It., D'uomo e il ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53811]]></link><description><![CDATA[To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked. [It., D'uomo e il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono  Scerne il dolor del fallo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52844]]></link><description><![CDATA[By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some had rather lose their friend then their Jest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some had rather lose their friend then their Jest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The love received is the love that is saved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2065]]></link><description><![CDATA[The love received is the love that is saved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53457]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel? By th' mass and 'tis, like a camel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel? By th' mass and 'tis, like a camel indeed.  Methinks it is like a weasel.   It is backed like a weasel.    Or like a whale.     Very like a whale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In war, the stronger overcomes the weaker. In business, the stronger imparts strength to the weaker. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47419]]></link><description><![CDATA[In war, the stronger overcomes the weaker. In business, the stronger imparts strength to the weaker.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gem cannot be polished without friction, not a man perfected without trials. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18414]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gem cannot be polished without friction, not a man perfected without trials.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63523]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63523</guid></item></channel></rss>