<?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[For aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55509]]></link><description><![CDATA[For aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make a customer, not a sale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make a customer, not a sale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How awestriking. How sublime..that out of muck and mud and dirt and slime God makes lemons and God makes limes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27577]]></link><description><![CDATA[How awestriking. How sublime..that out of muck and mud and dirt and slime God makes lemons and God makes limes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now is the age of anxiety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now is the age of anxiety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth. -Peter Ustinov. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth. -Peter Ustinov.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64728]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The back-doore robs the house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49794]]></link><description><![CDATA[The back-doore robs the house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64628]]></link><description><![CDATA[A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The confidence of ignorance will always overcome indecision of knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28115]]></link><description><![CDATA[The confidence of ignorance will always overcome indecision of knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tide rises, the tide falls, The twilight darkens, the curlew calls;  . . . .   The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59266]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tide rises, the tide falls, The twilight darkens, the curlew calls;  . . . .   The little waves, with their soft, white hands,    Efface the footprints in the sands,     And the tide rises, the tide falls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be better if we were able to get a deal, but it had to be the right deal. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34026]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be better if we were able to get a deal, but it had to be the right deal. It needs to be the right deal for Britain, and it needs to be the right deal for Europe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with some women is that they get allexcited about nothing and then marry him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21183]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with some women is that they get allexcited about nothing and then marry him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are counties targeted for consolidation. Bill Graff will be talking to farmers and commodity groups on getting their input. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38095]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are counties targeted for consolidation. Bill Graff will be talking to farmers and commodity groups on getting their input. We'll talk to anybody that wants to talk. The goal is to have better equipped, better trained, more efficient offices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you were not a sinful, polluted, helpless, and miserable creature, this Savior would not be suited to you, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29559]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you were not a sinful, polluted, helpless, and miserable creature, this Savior would not be suited to you, and you would not be comprehended in his gracious invitations to the children of men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our patience wasn't there and the tempo and continuity in our offense was off. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our patience wasn't there and the tempo and continuity in our offense was off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If cats could talk, they wouldn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5326]]></link><description><![CDATA[If cats could talk, they wouldn't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945 I thirst, but not as once I did, The vain delights of earth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945 I thirst, but not as once I did, The vain delights of earth to share; Thy wounds, Emmanuel, all forbid That I should seek my pleasures there. It was the sight of Thy dear cross First weaned my soul from earthly things; And taught me to esteem as dross The mirth of fools, and pomp of kings. I want that grace that springs from Thee, That quickens all things where it flows; And makes a wretched thorn like me Bloom as the myrtle or the rose. Dear fountain of delight unknown! No longer sink beneath the brim, But overflow, and pour me down A living and life-giving stream! For sure, if all the plants that share The notice of Thy Father's eye, None proves less grateful to His care, Or yields Him meaner fruit than I.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27661]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Investor confidence about profits at exporters is getting much stronger for the coming fiscal year. The dollar's advance is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Investor confidence about profits at exporters is getting much stronger for the coming fiscal year. The dollar's advance is a major support for the bullish outlook.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfullynor for much longer unless we see it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22060]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfullynor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate ascommon. It has to be everybody or nobody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. [Fr., Les hommes rougissent moins de leur crimes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. [Fr., Les hommes rougissent moins de leur crimes que de leurs faiblesses et de leur vanite.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things in their beeing are good for something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49110]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things in their beeing are good for something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59760]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the government of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52540]]></link><description><![CDATA[The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the government of worse men]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Driving a fire truck is always a thrill. Is it better than sex? No! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Driving a fire truck is always a thrill. Is it better than sex? No!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The waters wear the stones: thou washeth away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46157]]></link><description><![CDATA[The waters wear the stones: thou washeth away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Immortality is the genius to move others long after you yourself have stopped moving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Immortality is the genius to move others long after you yourself have stopped moving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business is a game, the greatest game in the world if you know how to play it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business is a game, the greatest game in the world if you know how to play it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55580]]></link><description><![CDATA[But love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 6.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As certain as the Correggiosity of Correggio. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45412]]></link><description><![CDATA[As certain as the Correggiosity of Correggio.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43143]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2800]]></link><description><![CDATA[People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work divided is in that manner shortened. [Lat., Divisum sic breve fiet opus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work divided is in that manner shortened. [Lat., Divisum sic breve fiet opus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For fools admire, but me of sense approve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/613]]></link><description><![CDATA[For fools admire, but me of sense approve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun doth shake Light from his locks, and, all the way  Breathing perfumes, doth spice the day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8650]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun doth shake Light from his locks, and, all the way  Breathing perfumes, doth spice the day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We laid out a lot of money on the thought that the rain forest is going to be in Johnson ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37849]]></link><description><![CDATA[We laid out a lot of money on the thought that the rain forest is going to be in Johnson County. Some of the initial interest did coincide with the rain forest going in Coralville. We had thought of marketing (Villages of Tiffin) as a less expensive option for businesses, and they would have the same access to some of the touristy type of attractions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stuff your eyes with wonder . . . live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61966]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stuff your eyes with wonder . . . live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14376]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and sewing are written by men. It is all part of a great scheme of sex propaganda.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You led our sons across the haunted flood, Into the Canaan of their high desire--  No milk and honey ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57139]]></link><description><![CDATA[You led our sons across the haunted flood, Into the Canaan of their high desire--  No milk and honey there, but tears and blood   Flowed where the hosts of evil trod in fire,    And left a worse than desert where they passed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christianity does not remove you from the world and its problems; it makes you fit to live in it, triumphantly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christianity does not remove you from the world and its problems; it makes you fit to live in it, triumphantly and usefully.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your're not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48125]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your're not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is that which, knowing the Lord's will, goes and does it; or, not knowing it, stands and waits, content ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is that which, knowing the Lord's will, goes and does it; or, not knowing it, stands and waits, content in ignorance as in knowledge, because God wills -- neither pressing into the hidden future, nor careless of the knowledge which opens the path of action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unity and self-sacrifice, of themselves, even when fostered by the most noble means, produce a facility for hating. Even when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unity and self-sacrifice, of themselves, even when fostered by the most noble means, produce a facility for hating. Even when men league themselves mightily together to promote tolerance and peace on earth, they are likely to be violently intolerant toward those not of a like mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In secret we met - In silence I grieve, That thy heart could forget, Thy spirit deceive. If I should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25944]]></link><description><![CDATA[In secret we met - In silence I grieve, That thy heart could forget, Thy spirit deceive. If I should meet thee After long years, How should I greet thee? - With silence and tears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44123]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do not boo an Olympic Gold Medalist. I'm the best in the world. I came here for you. You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40295]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do not boo an Olympic Gold Medalist. I'm the best in the world. I came here for you. You dont' boo me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43469]]></link><description><![CDATA[A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43469</guid></item></channel></rss>