<?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[Some values are ... like sugar on the doughnut, legitimate, desirable, but insufficient, apart from the doughnut itself. We need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60348]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some values are ... like sugar on the doughnut, legitimate, desirable, but insufficient, apart from the doughnut itself. We need substance as well as frosting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have wrought great use out of evil tools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14298]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have wrought great use out of evil tools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's reputation is what other people think of him; his character is what he really is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53870]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's reputation is what other people think of him; his character is what he really is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think that the flesh is necessarily treacherous, evil, bad. It is cantankerous, and it is independent. The idea ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4450]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think that the flesh is necessarily treacherous, evil, bad. It is cantankerous, and it is independent. The idea of independence is the key. It really is like colonialism. The colonies suddenly decide that they can and should exist with their own personality and should detach from the control of the mother country. At first the colony is perceived as being treacherous. It's a betrayal. Ultimately, it can be seen as the separation of a partner that could be very valuable as an equal rather than as something you dominate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of my favorite clothing patterns is camouflage. Because when you're in the woods it makes you blend in. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20178]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of my favorite clothing patterns is camouflage. Because when you're in the woods it makes you blend in. But when you're not it does just the opposite. It's like "hey, there's an asshole."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age considers; youth ventures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age considers; youth ventures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust in the Lord with all you do and you will be prosperous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust in the Lord with all you do and you will be prosperous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42788]]></link><description><![CDATA[A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe and aren't even aware of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Cross  If I am afraid to speak the truth lest I lose affection, or lest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Cross  If I am afraid to speak the truth lest I lose affection, or lest the one concerned should say, "You do not understand", or because I fear to lose my reputation for kindness; if I put my own good name before the other's highest good, then I know nothing of Calvary love. If I am content to heal a hurt slightly, saying peace, peace, where there is no peace; if I forget the poignant words, "Let love be without dissimulation" and blunt the edge of truth, speaking not right things but smooth things, then I know nothing of Calvary love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sublime Philosophy! Thou art the patriarch's ladder, reaching heaven;  And bright with beckoning angels--but alas!   We see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sublime Philosophy! Thou art the patriarch's ladder, reaching heaven;  And bright with beckoning angels--but alas!   We see thee like the patriarch, but in dreams,    By the first step,--dull slumbering on the earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means... the need to be left. I am driven ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means... the need to be left. I am driven to grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All will come out in the washing. [Sp., Todo saldra en al colada.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8855]]></link><description><![CDATA[All will come out in the washing. [Sp., Todo saldra en al colada.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More matter for a May morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26622]]></link><description><![CDATA[More matter for a May morning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was a wonderful nurse that I would say every nurse should emulate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40080]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was a wonderful nurse that I would say every nurse should emulate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. This is not always easy to achieve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33286]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. This is not always easy to achieve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To finish first, you must first finish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22219]]></link><description><![CDATA[To finish first, you must first finish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63832]]></link><description><![CDATA[As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The glacier was God's great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41033]]></link><description><![CDATA[The glacier was God's great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You no longer really have to record the Super Bowl because you can get all the commercials on AOL the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33017]]></link><description><![CDATA[You no longer really have to record the Super Bowl because you can get all the commercials on AOL the next day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one really won in this constitution. It left almost everything vague. Everyone played to a tie but we don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38953]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one really won in this constitution. It left almost everything vague. Everyone played to a tie but we don't know how the ties are going to be resolved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm happy when I'm juggling, but I feel like I've gone from, like, 3 balls to 10 -- bowling balls. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40177]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm happy when I'm juggling, but I feel like I've gone from, like, 3 balls to 10 -- bowling balls. But, that's a good problem. I don't really have a complaint about that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all born mad. Some remain so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54679]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all born mad. Some remain so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think she was very astute, along with the prime minister and her other advisers, to recognize that to let ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38456]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think she was very astute, along with the prime minister and her other advisers, to recognize that to let this go unanswered would have, in the minds of many, confirmed their worst suspicions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This Booke When Brasse and Marble fade, shall make thee looke  Fresh to all Ages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55304]]></link><description><![CDATA[This Booke When Brasse and Marble fade, shall make thee looke  Fresh to all Ages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When luck runs out, sense runs in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22996]]></link><description><![CDATA[When luck runs out, sense runs in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are pleased that leading technologies such as JobFlash's unique and widely used telephone application system are now exposed and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31866]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are pleased that leading technologies such as JobFlash's unique and widely used telephone application system are now exposed and leveraged through integration using HR-XML's open standards, ... More and more, HR decision-makers are making compliance with open standards part of the criteria they use when procuring HR solutions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64147]]></link><description><![CDATA[The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4937]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61943]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judges selected Pay By Touch as the winner in this category for bringing an innovative business solution that allows smaller ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judges selected Pay By Touch as the winner in this category for bringing an innovative business solution that allows smaller and mid-sized businesses to compete on equal footing with larger businesses -- as well as for their ability to offer this solution to customers around the world. Pay By Touch is combining its technology expertise with business insight to help their clients innovate on important business issues and realize real efficiencies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your time ain't come not even a doctor can kill you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23706]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your time ain't come not even a doctor can kill you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We see it as a trusted traveler program. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29340]]></link><description><![CDATA[We see it as a trusted traveler program.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5890]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64859]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Horse sense is a good judgement which keeps horses from betting on people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Horse sense is a good judgement which keeps horses from betting on people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59751]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every madman thinks all other men mad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every madman thinks all other men mad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When his wife asked him to change clothes to meet the German Ambassador: "If they want to see me, here ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2728]]></link><description><![CDATA[When his wife asked him to change clothes to meet the German Ambassador: "If they want to see me, here I am. If they want to see my clothes, open my closet and show them my suits."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2728</guid></item></channel></rss>