<?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[In hospitals there is no time off for good behavior. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19885]]></link><description><![CDATA[In hospitals there is no time off for good behavior.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The two words Ôinformation' and Ôcommunication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20883]]></link><description><![CDATA[The two words Ôinformation' and Ôcommunication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gentle sleep! Scatter thy drowsiest poppies from above;  And in new dreams not soon to vanish, bless   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gentle sleep! Scatter thy drowsiest poppies from above;  And in new dreams not soon to vanish, bless   My senses with the sight of her I love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One swallowe proveth not that summer is neare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58436]]></link><description><![CDATA[One swallowe proveth not that summer is neare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lucy was lovely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lucy was lovely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a daffadill I see, Hanging down his head t'wards me,  Guesse I may, what I must be:  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10971]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a daffadill I see, Hanging down his head t'wards me,  Guesse I may, what I must be:   First, I shall decline my head;    Secondly, I shall be dead:     Lastly, safely buryed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The (steam) sterilizers right now use 9,000 watts of electricity each, and these will be down to 1,500 watts apiece. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41822]]></link><description><![CDATA[The (steam) sterilizers right now use 9,000 watts of electricity each, and these will be down to 1,500 watts apiece. That's a big savings. You maybe don't have to bring along as many generators. You don't burn as much fuel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The juries are our judges of all fact, and of law when they choose it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23580]]></link><description><![CDATA[The juries are our judges of all fact, and of law when they choose it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So for thy spirit did devise Its Maker seemly garniture,  Of its own essence parcel pure.--   From ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2767]]></link><description><![CDATA[So for thy spirit did devise Its Maker seemly garniture,  Of its own essence parcel pure.--   From grave simplicities a dress,    And reticent demureness,     And love encinctured with reserve;      Which the woven vesture would subserve.       For outward robes in their ostents        Should show the soul's habiliments.         Therefore I say,--Thou'rt fair even so,          But better Fair I use to know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Irish are often nervous about having the appropriate face for the occasion. They have to be happy at weddings, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61498]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Irish are often nervous about having the appropriate face for the occasion. They have to be happy at weddings, which is a strain, so they get depressed; they have to be sad at funerals, which is easy, so they get happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The coward threatens when he is safe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10511]]></link><description><![CDATA[The coward threatens when he is safe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty is the conscience of the body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty is the conscience of the body.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suspicions which may be unjust need not be stated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suspicions which may be unjust need not be stated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Night was drawing and closing her curtain up above the world, and down beneath it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Night was drawing and closing her curtain up above the world, and down beneath it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5525]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Caroline and Jayme led the team today with their energy. Jayme is one of those players with a lot of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Caroline and Jayme led the team today with their energy. Jayme is one of those players with a lot of skill, and her and Caroline were connecting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just for today, I will let go of anger.Just for today, I will let go of worry.Today, I will count ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just for today, I will let go of anger.Just for today, I will let go of worry.Today, I will count my many blessings.Today, I will do my work honestly.Today, I will be kind to every living creature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not a black and white issue - it's not a question of whether we care or don't. It's not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38477]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not a black and white issue - it's not a question of whether we care or don't. It's not an either/or issue and does us no good to set this example for our kids or community-at-large, to reduce our concerns to simplistic clichÃƒÂ…Ã‚Â½s. Just because something has been declared legal doesn't mean that it is right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are extremely excited about our opportunity in Indianapolis. You can see why anyone in the banking business would be. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41945]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are extremely excited about our opportunity in Indianapolis. You can see why anyone in the banking business would be. Our sweet spot in business is really small- and mid-market-type business lending in addition to retail banking. Indianapolis has seen a lot of growth in small businesses. That's where our growth will come from.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bodily disease, which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18960]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bodily disease, which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual past -Nathaniel Hawthorne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men's minds are as variant as their faces. Where the motives of their actions are pure, the operation of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men's minds are as variant as their faces. Where the motives of their actions are pure, the operation of the former is no more to be imputed to them as a crime, than the appearance of the latter; for both, being the work of nature, are alike unavoidable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24887]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It hit a little home for me, actually. Not the stripping, but seeing these people who haven't been handed the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31438]]></link><description><![CDATA[It hit a little home for me, actually. Not the stripping, but seeing these people who haven't been handed the best card in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a lot of creative things you can do as a consumer to further maximize your rebate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32291]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a lot of creative things you can do as a consumer to further maximize your rebate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32291</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[I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62589]]></link><description><![CDATA[I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord of oneself, uncumbered with a name. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord of oneself, uncumbered with a name.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14547]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10570]]></link><description><![CDATA[The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20616]]></link><description><![CDATA[He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My work is a game, a very serious game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62102]]></link><description><![CDATA[My work is a game, a very serious game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kevin's taught me everything I know about playing keeper. He's prepared me for every situation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kevin's taught me everything I know about playing keeper. He's prepared me for every situation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth exists; only lies are invented. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth exists; only lies are invented.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out a proper method to catch the reader's eye; without which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23322]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out a proper method to catch the reader's eye; without which a good thing may pass over unobserved, or be lost among commissions of bankrupt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41557]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Re-examine all you have been told . . . Dismiss what insults your Soul. -Walt Whitman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Re-examine all you have been told . . . Dismiss what insults your Soul. -Walt Whitman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968  They only renounce the world as they ought, who live in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968  They only renounce the world as they ought, who live in the midst of it without worldly tempers, who comply with their share in the offices of human life without complying with the spirit that reigneth in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3411]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No Indian prince has to his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14780]]></link><description><![CDATA[The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No Indian prince has to his palace - More followers than a thief to the gallows]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There were some other girls who had some fair performances, but I'm expecting better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36498]]></link><description><![CDATA[There were some other girls who had some fair performances, but I'm expecting better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["In innocence there is no strength against evil," said Sparrowhawk, a little wryly. "But there is strength in it for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20955]]></link><description><![CDATA["In innocence there is no strength against evil," said Sparrowhawk, a little wryly. "But there is strength in it for good."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time to get a go on this drop-dead-gorgeous morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time to get a go on this drop-dead-gorgeous morning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An injury may prove a blessing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50709]]></link><description><![CDATA[An injury may prove a blessing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60909]]></link><description><![CDATA[For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2961</guid></item></channel></rss>