<?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[A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20312]]></link><description><![CDATA[A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20312</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[Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A true friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19019]]></link><description><![CDATA[A true friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One half the world laughs at the other, and fools are they all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24208]]></link><description><![CDATA[One half the world laughs at the other, and fools are they all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44025]]></link><description><![CDATA[There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm like an old warrior who can galvanize himself when he's threatened, but I'm pretty idle when I've got no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38786]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm like an old warrior who can galvanize himself when he's threatened, but I'm pretty idle when I've got no threats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Warwick, peace, Proud setter up and puller down of kings! -King Henry VI. Part III. Act iii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Warwick, peace, Proud setter up and puller down of kings! -King Henry VI. Part III. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10823]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is the most powerful scream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is the most powerful scream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why be concerned? There's a lot of baseball left to play. We haven't pressed all year so there's no reason ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why be concerned? There's a lot of baseball left to play. We haven't pressed all year so there's no reason to start now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The United Nations believes that acceptance of these principles will help the Palestinian people achieve their legitimate goal of an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40213]]></link><description><![CDATA[The United Nations believes that acceptance of these principles will help the Palestinian people achieve their legitimate goal of an end to occupation and the creation of an independent and viable state, living in peace and security with its neighbors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the way the world ends ... Not with a bang but with a whimper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62226]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the way the world ends ... Not with a bang but with a whimper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Snug as a bug in a rug. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Snug as a bug in a rug.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We laid it on the line. No regrets. We wanted to get it done real bad and we came together. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36369]]></link><description><![CDATA[We laid it on the line. No regrets. We wanted to get it done real bad and we came together. People doubted us in this tournament.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zinzendorf and the Moravians proved that an entire communion of believers (call it a church or a denomination, if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zinzendorf and the Moravians proved that an entire communion of believers (call it a church or a denomination, if you will) can find reason for being solely on the basis of missions to the lost and unreached multitudes of the world. Their fellowship existed solely to send out laborers into the harvest. Everyone and everything pointed to that missionary purpose. For them, missions was not an adjunct to church life, it was church life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trouble is part of your life - if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trouble is part of your life - if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prithee, friend, Pour out the pack of matter to mine ear,  The good and the bad together: he's friends ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prithee, friend, Pour out the pack of matter to mine ear,  The good and the bad together: he's friends with Caesar,   In state of health, thou say'st, and thou say'st, free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A racehorse that consistently runs just a second faster than another horseis worth millions of dollars more. Be willing to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22107]]></link><description><![CDATA[A racehorse that consistently runs just a second faster than another horseis worth millions of dollars more. Be willing to give that extra effortthat separates the winner from the one in second place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O that this too too sullied flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew,  Or that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12013]]></link><description><![CDATA[O that this too too sullied flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew,  Or that the Everlasting had not fixed   His canon 'gainst self-slaughter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take the first advice of a woman and not the second. [Lat., Primo dede mulieris consilio, secundo noli.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take the first advice of a woman and not the second. [Lat., Primo dede mulieris consilio, secundo noli.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will temporarily depress some economic activity, in much the same way a snowstorm could. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40341]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will temporarily depress some economic activity, in much the same way a snowstorm could.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is by nature a political animal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is by nature a political animal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To grow a philosopher's beard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48553]]></link><description><![CDATA[To grow a philosopher's beard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like a movie, if you've sat through more than half of it and its sucked every second so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like a movie, if you've sat through more than half of it and its sucked every second so far, it probably isn't gonna get great right at the end and make it all worthwhile. None should blame you for walking out early.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on topics of Christian apologetics:  We need to forget the imaginary Christ who has been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on topics of Christian apologetics:  We need to forget the imaginary Christ who has been ours too long and to rediscover the real Christ, the Christ of the prophets and the martyrs and the confessors, the Christ who is not only the lover of souls but also master, a monarch with demands to make in industry, in finance, in education, in the arts, in marriage, in the home; the Christ who is teacher of a social ideology which has eternal validity; the Christ who cries aloud with convincing force, "He who would save his life will lose it; only he who is willing to lose his life, can find it.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't run around a guy that's 355 pounds. There's no key to getting around 'Mean' Max. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36932]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't run around a guy that's 355 pounds. There's no key to getting around 'Mean' Max.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16692]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell themBenjamin Franklin said it first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22166]]></link><description><![CDATA[People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell themBenjamin Franklin said it first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy,rich or poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21306]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy,rich or poor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is brave is free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16654]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is brave is free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46820]]></link><description><![CDATA[With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60152]]></link><description><![CDATA[What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know I met you, Kist you, and prest you close within my arms,  With all the tenderness of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61879]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know I met you, Kist you, and prest you close within my arms,  With all the tenderness of wifely love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God doesn't believe in the easy way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36992]]></link><description><![CDATA[God doesn't believe in the easy way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In line with this trend, revenue recognition on a number of larger banking projects will now occur later than anticipated, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40005]]></link><description><![CDATA[In line with this trend, revenue recognition on a number of larger banking projects will now occur later than anticipated,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defend me, God, from myself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defend me, God, from myself]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16533]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; Let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; Who sows a field, or trains ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; Let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants a tree, is more than all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After the conquest of Afric, Greece, the lesser Asia, and Syria were brought into Italy all the sorts of their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2951]]></link><description><![CDATA[After the conquest of Afric, Greece, the lesser Asia, and Syria were brought into Italy all the sorts of their Mala, which we interprete apples, and might signify no more at first; but were afterwards applied to many other foreign fruits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life he is leading, with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life he is leading, with the thoughts he is thinking, with the deeds he is doing; when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do because he is still, in spite of all, the child of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7940</guid></item></channel></rss>