<?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[An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3451]]></link><description><![CDATA[An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gallantry to women--the sure road to their favor--is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gallantry to women--the sure road to their favor--is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks  Invisible, except to God alone,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20228]]></link><description><![CDATA[For neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks  Invisible, except to God alone,   By his permissive will, through heav'n and earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[-Duke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55752]]></link><description><![CDATA[-Duke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born. Modesty died ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born. Modesty died when false modesty was born.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who moves not forward, goes backward ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10259]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who moves not forward, goes backward]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it. - "Modern Maturity Magazine, Jan/Feb 1995".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who with a body filled and vacant mind Gets him to rest, crammed with distressful bread. -King Henry V. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who with a body filled and vacant mind Gets him to rest, crammed with distressful bread. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60050]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel a lot more comfortable with each game. Things seem to get easier and more natural for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38265]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel a lot more comfortable with each game. Things seem to get easier and more natural for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lap of providence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lap of providence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nineties style isn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nineties style isn't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A City that parlies is half gotten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49007]]></link><description><![CDATA[A City that parlies is half gotten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let each man think himself an act of God. His mind a thought, his life a breath of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let each man think himself an act of God. His mind a thought, his life a breath of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up here in the north country (areas with high levels of snow), we'd like to see 10 percent more deer, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Up here in the north country (areas with high levels of snow), we'd like to see 10 percent more deer, in the middle snow fall zone we could have up to 50 percent more deer, and in southern areas where we have a lot of agriculture in the landscape, perhaps around 15 percent fewer deer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Start every day off with a smile and get it over with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the second, "For my best friend.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy is a symptom of lack of appreciation of our own uniqueness and self worth. Each of us has something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy is a symptom of lack of appreciation of our own uniqueness and self worth. Each of us has something to give that no one else has.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hero is the world-man, in whose heart One passion stands for all, the most indulged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19216]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hero is the world-man, in whose heart One passion stands for all, the most indulged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imitation is suicide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imitation is suicide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inconsistencies cannot both be right; but, imputed to man, they may both be true ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inconsistencies cannot both be right; but, imputed to man, they may both be true]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The weather was bad. We don't know of any enemy action. The investigation continues, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38365]]></link><description><![CDATA[The weather was bad. We don't know of any enemy action. The investigation continues,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As many servants so many enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51130]]></link><description><![CDATA[As many servants so many enemies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest act of faith is when man admits he is not god. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15004]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest act of faith is when man admits he is not god.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13517]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My suspicion, in England at least, is that the more charitable view will prevail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42549]]></link><description><![CDATA[My suspicion, in England at least, is that the more charitable view will prevail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's the end of his life, by the look of it, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29901]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's the end of his life, by the look of it,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59826]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17644]]></link><description><![CDATA[God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I blame my mother for nothing, but forgive her for everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43179]]></link><description><![CDATA[I blame my mother for nothing, but forgive her for everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2537]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Spirit, zealous, as he seemed, to know More of the Almighty's works, and chiefly Man,  God's latest image. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62626]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Spirit, zealous, as he seemed, to know More of the Almighty's works, and chiefly Man,  God's latest image.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27796]]></link><description><![CDATA[If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discontent is the seed of ethics ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discontent is the seed of ethics]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's looking for some meaningful penetration into the backline. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57664]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's looking for some meaningful penetration into the backline.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy. - Paradoxes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy. - Paradoxes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ran out of gas yesterday afternoon sometime, ... I have no idea when we're getting more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42397]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ran out of gas yesterday afternoon sometime, ... I have no idea when we're getting more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42397</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[He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56414]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You, sir, I entertain for one of my hundred; only I do not like the fashion of your garments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15346]]></link><description><![CDATA[You, sir, I entertain for one of my hundred; only I do not like the fashion of your garments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avoid competency traps. Do not stay only where you are good at things, Go out and be challenged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avoid competency traps. Do not stay only where you are good at things, Go out and be challenged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9201</guid></item></channel></rss>