<?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[The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/283]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rule Of the many is not well. One must be chief  In war and one the king. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54469]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rule Of the many is not well. One must be chief  In war and one the king.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am pretty much a person of my word and I told myself I would get myself out of this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31244]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am pretty much a person of my word and I told myself I would get myself out of this and I knew somehow I would.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is the broom I take in my hands to sweep the world clean. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is the broom I take in my hands to sweep the world clean.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grief tears his heart, and drives him to and fro, In all the raging impotence of woe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grief tears his heart, and drives him to and fro, In all the raging impotence of woe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a Lackey comes to hells doore, the devills locke the gates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50064]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a Lackey comes to hells doore, the devills locke the gates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High minds, of native pride and force, Most deeply feel thy pangs, Remorse;  Fear, for their scourge, means villains ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53795]]></link><description><![CDATA[High minds, of native pride and force, Most deeply feel thy pangs, Remorse;  Fear, for their scourge, means villains have,   Thou art the torturer of the brave!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your company is taken over for stock, I would sell unless I had a great reason. I'd ignore what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40725]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your company is taken over for stock, I would sell unless I had a great reason. I'd ignore what the chief executive officer had to say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Personally I believe it is important for mankind to respect nature - for homeostasis - and I have volunteered with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Personally I believe it is important for mankind to respect nature - for homeostasis - and I have volunteered with environmental organizations, I do not attempt to have an environmental leaning regarding my artwork.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sleep is death without the consequence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sleep is death without the consequence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I watched the sky a long time, concluding that such beauty was reserved for distant, dangerous places, and that nature ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14778]]></link><description><![CDATA[I watched the sky a long time, concluding that such beauty was reserved for distant, dangerous places, and that nature has good reason for exacting her own special sacrifices from those determined to witness them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The divide of race has been America's constant curse. Each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12466]]></link><description><![CDATA[The divide of race has been America's constant curse. Each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices. Prejudice and contempt, cloaked in the pretense of religious or political conviction, are no different. They have nearly destroyed us in the past. They plague us still. They fuel the fanaticism of terror. They torment the lives of millions in fractured nations around the world. These obsessions cripple both those who are hated and, of course, those who hate, robbing both of what they might become.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19273]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2283]]></link><description><![CDATA[To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every bullet has its billet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every bullet has its billet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We feel Johnson County is the best location for the rain forest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37846]]></link><description><![CDATA[We feel Johnson County is the best location for the rain forest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16490]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wealth is enjoying what we already have, not getting more of what wethink will make us happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wealth is enjoying what we already have, not getting more of what wethink will make us happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own. There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ayr, gurgling, kissed his pebbled shore, O'erhung with wild woods, thickening green;  The fragrant birch and hawthorn hoar  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ayr, gurgling, kissed his pebbled shore, O'erhung with wild woods, thickening green;  The fragrant birch and hawthorn hoar   Twined amorous round the raptures scene.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3070]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no shame in finding someone else to be attractive, or good company. Even if they don't like you, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22303]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no shame in finding someone else to be attractive, or good company. Even if they don't like you, there is still no shame. If you happen to be fond of someone, and they're not fond of you, it's OK.. You don't have to wait and see if they'll love you back. You can announce it.. Joy in life comes from expressing ourselves, in taking risks and jumping in. Everyone is not going to like you. But you can like who you like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66499]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have heard professing Christians of our own day speak as though the historicity of the Gospels does not matter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7791]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have heard professing Christians of our own day speak as though the historicity of the Gospels does not matter -- all that matters is the contemporary Spirit of Christ. I contend that the historicity does matter, and I do not see why we, who live nearly two thousand years later, should call into question an Event for which there were many eye-witnesses still living at the time when most of the New Testament was written. It was no "cunningly devised fable" but an historic irruption of God into human history which gave birth to a young church so sturdy that the pagan world could not stifle or destroy it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few minds wear out; more rust out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few minds wear out; more rust out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a great deal of difference to receive an honorary title or a title in his profession. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40643]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a great deal of difference to receive an honorary title or a title in his profession.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To bear is to conquer our fate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15384]]></link><description><![CDATA[To bear is to conquer our fate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have anything against anyone personally. But I think it's important to keep that definition straightforward, and not muddle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35555]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have anything against anyone personally. But I think it's important to keep that definition straightforward, and not muddle it up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63051]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The longer I live, the more faith I have in Providence, and the less faith in my interpretation of Providence ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51904]]></link><description><![CDATA[The longer I live, the more faith I have in Providence, and the less faith in my interpretation of Providence]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always keep your hook in the water: where you least expect one, the fish will be found. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always keep your hook in the water: where you least expect one, the fish will be found.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Swings the scaly horror of his folded tail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Swings the scaly horror of his folded tail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If unix is the face of the future I wanna go back to quill pens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9548]]></link><description><![CDATA[If unix is the face of the future I wanna go back to quill pens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Choose being kind over being right, and you'll be right every time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Choose being kind over being right, and you'll be right every time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ring out, will bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ring out, will bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There the Bush Administration has offered only a merry go-round policy. They got up on their high horse, whooped and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4999]]></link><description><![CDATA[There the Bush Administration has offered only a merry go-round policy. They got up on their high horse, whooped and hollered, rode around in circles, and ended right back where they'd started.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to go along a road covered with blood. We have no other alternative. For us it is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61185]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to go along a road covered with blood. We have no other alternative. For us it is a matter of life or death, a matter of living or existing. We have to be ready to face the challenges that await us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let no one till his death Be called unhappy. Measure not the work  Until the day's out and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no one till his death Be called unhappy. Measure not the work  Until the day's out and the labour done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That he was never less at leisure than when at leisure: nor that he was ever less alone than when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57169]]></link><description><![CDATA[That he was never less at leisure than when at leisure: nor that he was ever less alone than when alone. [Lat., Nunquam se minus otiosum esse quam cum otiosus; nec minus solum quam cum solus esset.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45718]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sweet voice, a little indistinct and muffled, which caresses and does not thrill; an utterance which glides on without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60922]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sweet voice, a little indistinct and muffled, which caresses and does not thrill; an utterance which glides on without emphasis, and lays stress on what is deeply felt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're not a white male, consider sales seriously. Most employers, regardless of how sexist or racist they may be, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15880]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're not a white male, consider sales seriously. Most employers, regardless of how sexist or racist they may be, will pay for any sales they can get. And they care little for the color or gender of the person who brings that business to the firm. Most will be glad to get the business even if it comes from a green, bisexual Martian.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed: and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23470]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed: and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I fail and keep trying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21327]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21327</guid></item></channel></rss>