<?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[Success has made failures of many men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success has made failures of many men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy rul'd the day, and Love the night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy rul'd the day, and Love the night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Senator Frist is a good man, he's simply advocating a bad policy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Senator Frist is a good man, he's simply advocating a bad policy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When day is done, and clouds are low, And flowers are honey-dew,  And Hesper's lamp begins to glow  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14251]]></link><description><![CDATA[When day is done, and clouds are low, And flowers are honey-dew,  And Hesper's lamp begins to glow   Along the western blue;    And homeward wing the turtle-doves,     Then comes the hour the poet loves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are certainly past the point where we need an increase, especially with the situation with how fuel has been. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39991]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are certainly past the point where we need an increase, especially with the situation with how fuel has been. It's absorbing all of our profits, and we can't make a living,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tony (Queen) and Ray (String) did a phenomenal job defensively on Hurtado. We executed our game plan and forced him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tony (Queen) and Ray (String) did a phenomenal job defensively on Hurtado. We executed our game plan and forced him to his left all night and got him frustrated. Not many teams have been able to shut him down. He is really a special player.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like people, like priest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like people, like priest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our task must be to free ourselves . . . by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our task must be to free ourselves . . . by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind, the sunshine of an April day,  And woman's plighted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind, the sunshine of an April day,  And woman's plighted faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mr. Romero was an ex-Marine, and Brandon loved to listen to his stories about being a Marine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mr. Romero was an ex-Marine, and Brandon loved to listen to his stories about being a Marine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is no imagination there is no horror. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is no imagination there is no horror.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greater consumption due to increase in population and growth of income heightens scarcity and induces price run-ups. A higher price ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Greater consumption due to increase in population and growth of income heightens scarcity and induces price run-ups. A higher price represents an opportunity that leads inventors and businesspeople to seek new ways to satisfy the shortages. Some fail, at cost to themselves. A few succeed, and the final result is that we end up better off than if the original shortage problems had never arisen. That is, we need our problems, though this does not imply that we should purposely create additional problems for ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19917]]></link><description><![CDATA[I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14725]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63837]]></link><description><![CDATA[A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no strength in unbelief. Even the unbelief of what is false is no source of might. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60011]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no strength in unbelief. Even the unbelief of what is false is no source of might. It is the truth shining from behind that gives the strength to disbelieve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66894]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast. -The Comedy of Errors. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast. -The Comedy of Errors. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The same thing is happening on the barrier islands, like Longboat Key and Anna Maria, when you have a red ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31849]]></link><description><![CDATA[The same thing is happening on the barrier islands, like Longboat Key and Anna Maria, when you have a red tide in the area, ... But the data is not at a fine enough resolution to tease out the economic impact.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even after 9/11, when their life-saving role became clear, employers have dragged their feet on raising wages to a mostly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even after 9/11, when their life-saving role became clear, employers have dragged their feet on raising wages to a mostly African-American workforce. Four years after 9/11, the real estate industry has short-changed security officers, undermined the safety of their own buildings and jeopardized the well-being of the entire city.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That kid was aggressive. He came after Terence, but Terence stepped it up and did his job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28351]]></link><description><![CDATA[That kid was aggressive. He came after Terence, but Terence stepped it up and did his job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images that they place in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images that they place in the very bowing of the vaults of churches, that look as if they held up the church, but are but puppets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is love taking the form of aspiration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me a child for the first seven years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me a child for the first seven years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52561]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a creature That dotes on Cassio, as 'tis the strumpet's plague  To beguile many and be beguiled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58909]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a creature That dotes on Cassio, as 'tis the strumpet's plague  To beguile many and be beguiled by one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on prayer   We Christians too often substitute prayer for playing the game. Prayer is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on prayer   We Christians too often substitute prayer for playing the game. Prayer is good; but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is nothing but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism... To your knees, man! and to your Bible! Decide at once! Don't hedge! Time flies! Cease your insults to God, quit consulting flesh and blood. Stop your lame, lying, and cowardly excuses. Enlist!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. -Robert Louis Stevenson. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. -Robert Louis Stevenson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62770]]></link><description><![CDATA[A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4437]]></link><description><![CDATA[This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wishing, of all employments is the worst. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wishing, of all employments is the worst.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This relationship is based on a firm belief in shared values and in principles that we defend and that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39087]]></link><description><![CDATA[This relationship is based on a firm belief in shared values and in principles that we defend and that we proclaim and that we assume.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justification is withdrawn from works, not that no good works may be done, or that what is done may be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justification is withdrawn from works, not that no good works may be done, or that what is done may be denied to be good, but that we may not rely upon them, glory in them, or ascribe salvation to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This shows that criminals are attempting to stay ahead of the game by trying to evade detection at British ports. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37840]]></link><description><![CDATA[This shows that criminals are attempting to stay ahead of the game by trying to evade detection at British ports.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can always get someone to love you, even if you have to do it yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25798]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can always get someone to love you, even if you have to do it yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["What Thou wilt, when Thou wilt, how Thou wilt." I had rather speak these three sentences from my heart in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6948]]></link><description><![CDATA["What Thou wilt, when Thou wilt, how Thou wilt." I had rather speak these three sentences from my heart in my mother tongue than be master of all the languages in Europe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're only given as much as you can handle at any given time. Whether it's true or not, it gives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35777]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're only given as much as you can handle at any given time. Whether it's true or not, it gives you the strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Possession means to sit astride the world Instead of having it astride of you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Possession means to sit astride the world Instead of having it astride of you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24966]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's part of our culture and firm belief that smart, talented local bankers make the best decisions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41946]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's part of our culture and firm belief that smart, talented local bankers make the best decisions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the oak is before the ash, then you will only get a splash; when the ash is before the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51047]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the oak is before the ash, then you will only get a splash; when the ash is before the oak, then you may expect a soak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22014]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, Chicago's a great town; what can I say? It has a lot of diversity. You can find so many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, Chicago's a great town; what can I say? It has a lot of diversity. You can find so many different kinds of people there. It breeds a certain self-confidence and a willingness to work hard for what you want. I don't know, maybe they put something in the water -- the river is green.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first thing they wanted was a shower and a change of clothes. People had been wading through floodwater in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40976]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first thing they wanted was a shower and a change of clothes. People had been wading through floodwater in the clothes they were wearing, and then had to live in them for days at the convention center. They smelled like urine, feces, and death, but they had to wait in line to be processed and then find a bed and then they could take a shower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40976</guid></item></channel></rss>