<?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[He won't run if there is more rain. There is no point sending him around on a wet track. He's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33216]]></link><description><![CDATA[He won't run if there is more rain. There is no point sending him around on a wet track. He's hopeless in the soft.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will see no better deal this week or next year. We believe our proposal to be fair and balanced ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39015]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will see no better deal this week or next year. We believe our proposal to be fair and balanced and there is very narrow room for negotiation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. He that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26167]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. He that invents a machine augments the power of man and the well-being of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[He has had only one close call, when he got his thumb stuck in the spokes of his mom's wheelchair ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30217]]></link><description><![CDATA[[He has had only one close call, when he got his thumb stuck in the spokes of his mom's wheelchair and it caused an under-the-nail blood blister. The injury occurred in the post-Photoshop era, but even so, the resulting lag in work could have cost him trusted clients.] I thought Photoshop was the end of my career, ... I thought they'd be able to get any ol' pair of hands in there. But what most people don't realize is there's a brain that comes connected to these hands. You need to know the tricks of the trade. It's just like fashion modeling: You can get a pretty woman to put on an outfit, but once you send her down the runway, does she know what to do?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know I had to have myself checked regularly because I want to be healthy -- the older you get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40073]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know I had to have myself checked regularly because I want to be healthy -- the older you get the less you know what is inside your body. You have to be checked to make sure nothing is going wrong ... There is nothing to be afraid of. It's something that, if you catch it early enough, you can avoid more complicated problems in the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's exciting; I don't know whether I'm going to win or not. I think I am. I do know I'm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13685]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's exciting; I don't know whether I'm going to win or not. I think I am. I do know I'm ready for the job. And, if not, that's just the way it goes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Didst thou never hear That things ill got had ever bad success? And happy always was it for that son ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Didst thou never hear That things ill got had ever bad success? And happy always was it for that son Whose father for his hoarding went to hell? -King Henry VI. Part III. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63286]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An idea is salvation by imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54666]]></link><description><![CDATA[An idea is salvation by imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58397]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no grief like the grief that does not speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18363]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man may be overturned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man may be overturned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more sinful and guilty a person tends to feel, the less chance there is that he will be a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18484]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more sinful and guilty a person tends to feel, the less chance there is that he will be a happy, healthy, or law-abiding citizen. He will become a compulsive wrong-doer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42626]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society... these are only feelings I have, and I am the least speculative man on earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All limits are self imposed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20662]]></link><description><![CDATA[All limits are self imposed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tho' he inherit Not the pride, nor ample pinion,  That the Theban eagle bear,   Sailing with supreme ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tho' he inherit Not the pride, nor ample pinion,  That the Theban eagle bear,   Sailing with supreme dominion    Thro' the azure deep of air.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is, I believe, better to restrain the passions of youth by a sense of shame, and by conciliatory means, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51745]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is, I believe, better to restrain the passions of youth by a sense of shame, and by conciliatory means, than by fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't make a decision right now. I'm going to wait until next Monday. I want to know how I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41172]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't make a decision right now. I'm going to wait until next Monday. I want to know how I feel tomorrow. I don't feel any pain or anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government, obviously, cannot fill a child's emotional needs. Nor can it fill his spiritual and moral needs. Government is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government, obviously, cannot fill a child's emotional needs. Nor can it fill his spiritual and moral needs. Government is not a father or mother. Government has never raised a child, and it never will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's true that a new threat against a member of the PP has appeared. We will reinforce all security measures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29321]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's true that a new threat against a member of the PP has appeared. We will reinforce all security measures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With devotion's visage, And pious action, we do sugar o'er  The devil himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51265]]></link><description><![CDATA[With devotion's visage, And pious action, we do sugar o'er  The devil himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24412]]></link><description><![CDATA[The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If any man claims the Negro should be content ... let him say he would willingly change the color of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14414]]></link><description><![CDATA[If any man claims the Negro should be content ... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We have really no absent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/167]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We have really no absent friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mutually giving and receiving aid, They set each other off, like light and shade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mutually giving and receiving aid, They set each other off, like light and shade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The girls have worked hard and earned the right to play at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41929]]></link><description><![CDATA[The girls have worked hard and earned the right to play at home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When in good health we easily give good advice to the sick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51754]]></link><description><![CDATA[When in good health we easily give good advice to the sick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8967]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy, one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The better part of statesmanship might be to know clearly and precisely what not to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47598]]></link><description><![CDATA[The better part of statesmanship might be to know clearly and precisely what not to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They work their way down the line and everything is made to the customer's specifications. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31676]]></link><description><![CDATA[They work their way down the line and everything is made to the customer's specifications.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast  And fills the white and rustling sails, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43991]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast  And fills the white and rustling sails,   And bends the gallant mast!    And bends the gallant mast, my boys,     While, like the eagle free,      Away the good ship flies, and leaves       Old England in the lee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do to others what you would have them do to you."The source of the famous "Golden Rule." Many famous lines ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do to others what you would have them do to you."The source of the famous "Golden Rule." Many famous lines were variations on this theme. - Matthew 7:12.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Superstition is a senseless fear of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Superstition is a senseless fear of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wept as I remembered how often you and I had tired the sun with talking and sent him down ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28035]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wept as I remembered how often you and I had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace hath higher tests of manhood Than battle ever knew. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace hath higher tests of manhood Than battle ever knew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Burnout is nature's way of telling you, you've been going through the motions your soul has departed; you're a zombie, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Burnout is nature's way of telling you, you've been going through the motions your soul has departed; you're a zombie, a member of the walking dead, a sleepwalker. False optimism is like administrating stimulants to an exhausted nervous system.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[White is a trend unto itself. From very pure, stark white to ecru, you can look at white as an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36157]]></link><description><![CDATA[White is a trend unto itself. From very pure, stark white to ecru, you can look at white as an entire color family. White is the neutral of the season against which all other colors are paired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is in the universe something for the description and analysis of which the natural sciences cannot contribute anything. There ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56801]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is in the universe something for the description and analysis of which the natural sciences cannot contribute anything. There are events beyond the range of those events that the procedures of the natural sciences are fit to observe and describe. There is human action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30722]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...in the course of the last century science has become so dizzy with its successes, that it has forgotten to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56790]]></link><description><![CDATA[...in the course of the last century science has become so dizzy with its successes, that it has forgotten to ask the pertinent questions- or refused to ask them under the pretext that they are meaningless, and in any case not the scientists concern.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take all the swift advantage of the hours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take all the swift advantage of the hours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10584]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you make a bet, you're saying something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28608]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you make a bet, you're saying something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28608</guid></item></channel></rss>