<?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[I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65859]]></link><description><![CDATA[I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you...If you bless a situation, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you...If you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt you, and even if it is troublesome for a time, it will gradually fade out, if you sincerely bless it. -Emmet Fox.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is influence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is influence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the odd man out in the family. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40920]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the odd man out in the family.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46692]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is a society without a heroic dimension? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19252]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is a society without a heroic dimension?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumption. People will be happy to give ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumption. People will be happy to give up most of their culture for the assurance that the tiny bit that comes through is safe and clean. White noise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we came here we didn't know anybody, and when we wanted to do something we had no idea where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28870]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we came here we didn't know anybody, and when we wanted to do something we had no idea where to go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I walked a mile with Pleasure, She chattered all the way;  But left me none the wiser,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46703]]></link><description><![CDATA[I walked a mile with Pleasure, She chattered all the way;  But left me none the wiser,   For all she had to say.    I walked a mile with Sorrow     And ne'er a word said she;      But, oh, the things I learned from her       When Sorrow walked with me!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47423]]></link><description><![CDATA[People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And my brother-in-law took this great video I just had to share with the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40507]]></link><description><![CDATA[And my brother-in-law took this great video I just had to share with the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, andenthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, andenthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63781]]></link><description><![CDATA[The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had a thousand major shareholders that I know would be selling stock because of portfolio diversification, I would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37826]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had a thousand major shareholders that I know would be selling stock because of portfolio diversification, I would rather do a secondary offering than have them sell in dribs and drabs. It makes a lot of sense to do it in one fell swoop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We couldn't pull a few out but they were all close games and during each one of those losses we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39632]]></link><description><![CDATA[We couldn't pull a few out but they were all close games and during each one of those losses we felt that we could have won the game. Knowing that is a great sign because we can make some small adjustments and hopefully change it for the next game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some are weather-wise, some are otherwise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some are weather-wise, some are otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true source of cheerfulness is benevolence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4148]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true source of cheerfulness is benevolence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The diamond's virtues well might grace The epigram, and both excel  In brilliancy in smallest space,   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14057]]></link><description><![CDATA[The diamond's virtues well might grace The epigram, and both excel  In brilliancy in smallest space,   And power to cut as well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44739]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't take a chance on infecting another team. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33298]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't take a chance on infecting another team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No sensible man (among the many things that have been written on this kind) ever imputed inconsistency to another for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5520]]></link><description><![CDATA[No sensible man (among the many things that have been written on this kind) ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind. [Lat., Nemo doctus unquam (multa autem de hoc genere scripta sunt) mutationem consili inconstantiam dixit esse.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better a broken promise than none at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better a broken promise than none at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A usurper always distrusts the whole world. [It., Usurpator diffida  Di tutti sempre.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12573]]></link><description><![CDATA[A usurper always distrusts the whole world. [It., Usurpator diffida  Di tutti sempre.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The tournament returns to the same venue this morning for the 2005 state tournament, but this time the elements are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28796]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The tournament returns to the same venue this morning for the 2005 state tournament, but this time the elements are forecasted to be more conducive to scoring.] The weather is supposed to be great, ... They say its going to be the nicest day of the week.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43927]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On his weary couch Fat Luxury, sick of the night's debauch,  Lay groaning, fretful at the obtrusive beam  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26085]]></link><description><![CDATA[On his weary couch Fat Luxury, sick of the night's debauch,  Lay groaning, fretful at the obtrusive beam   That through his lattice peeped derisively.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pump you up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pump you up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear not, but trust in Providence, Wherever thou may'st be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear not, but trust in Providence, Wherever thou may'st be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can it be, O Christ in heaven, that the holiest suffer most, That the strongest wander furthest, and more hopelessly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can it be, O Christ in heaven, that the holiest suffer most, That the strongest wander furthest, and more hopelessly are lost?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every generation thinks it has the answers, and every generation is humbled by nature ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every generation thinks it has the answers, and every generation is humbled by nature]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've signed up until 2008 and I am happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30996]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've signed up until 2008 and I am happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53625]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Call things by their right names . . . Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Call things by their right names . . . Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11362]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter andgive up. They happen to break you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter andgive up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be allthat you were intended to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God of our fathers, known of old, Lord of our far-flung battle-line,  Beneath whose awful Hand we hold  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16474]]></link><description><![CDATA[God of our fathers, known of old, Lord of our far-flung battle-line,  Beneath whose awful Hand we hold   Dominion over palm and pine--    Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,     Lest we forget--lest we forget!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything popular is wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything popular is wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue:  So court a mistress, she denies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue:  So court a mistress, she denies you;   Let her alone, she will court you.    Say are not women truly, then,     Styled but the shadows of us men?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have not yet reached a consensus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39008]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have not yet reached a consensus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've done both theatre and film and the fact is if you start believing, if you start reading things and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37820]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've done both theatre and film and the fact is if you start believing, if you start reading things and they're good reviews - you believe that and you're lost, and then you read bad reviews and you think that's true and you read that and you're lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tyrant now Trusts not to men: nightly within his chamber  The watch-dog guards his couch, the only friend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59956]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tyrant now Trusts not to men: nightly within his chamber  The watch-dog guards his couch, the only friend   He now dare trust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to move a load today from Chicago to L.A., that load will spend half of its time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39809]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to move a load today from Chicago to L.A., that load will spend half of its time in Chicago or L.A..]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One should use praise to recognize what one is not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22270]]></link><description><![CDATA[One should use praise to recognize what one is not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22270</guid></item></channel></rss>