<?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[You can't ask for what you want unless you know what it is. A lot of people don't know what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29840]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't ask for what you want unless you know what it is. A lot of people don't know what they want or they want much less than they deserve. First you have figure out what you want. Second, you have to decide that you deserve it. Third, you have to believe you can get it. And, fourth, you have to have the guts to ask for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would prefer even to fail with honor than to win by cheating ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5811]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would prefer even to fail with honor than to win by cheating]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution as to warm without heating, to cheer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution as to warm without heating, to cheer but not inebriate. (Tar Water.)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You make trade offs: do you want to get everything that's relevant or do you want to miss some things? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41803]]></link><description><![CDATA[You make trade offs: do you want to get everything that's relevant or do you want to miss some things? The feedback I'm hearing from companies is, if you can get them 50 per cent or 80 percent there, that makes a huge impact,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I sought Him where my logic led.  "This friend is always sure and right;  His lantern is sufficient ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7787]]></link><description><![CDATA[I sought Him where my logic led.  "This friend is always sure and right;  His lantern is sufficient light -- I need no star," I said. I sought Him in the city square.  Logic and I went up and down  The marketplace of many a town, And He was never there. I tracked Him to the mind's far rim.  The valiant Intellect went forth  To east and west and south and north, And found no trace of Him. We walked the world from sun to sun,  Logic and I, with little Faith,  But never came to Nazareth, Or found the Holy One. I sought in vain. And finally,  Back to the heart's small house I crept,  And fell upon my knees, and wept; And lo! -- He came to me!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45647]]></link><description><![CDATA[The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that I shall never scan A tree as lovely as a man.  . . . .  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59685]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that I shall never scan A tree as lovely as a man.  . . . .   A tree depicts divinest plan,    But God himself lives in a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas Christmas broached the mightiest ale, 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51112]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas Christmas broached the mightiest ale, 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16646]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56923]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If these things be seriously pondered and laid to heart, we shall soon understand what Adam and Christ are; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38318]]></link><description><![CDATA[If these things be seriously pondered and laid to heart, we shall soon understand what Adam and Christ are; and how they live and act in men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66731]]></link><description><![CDATA[And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the horizon. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the horizon. -James L. Fisher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15154]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't do this now people will not be able to recover. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29099]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't do this now people will not be able to recover.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us, come because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us, come because actually deserve them? So now I take comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the Universe]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66568]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A really patient servant of God is as ready to bear inglorious troubles as those which are honorable. A brave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7234]]></link><description><![CDATA[A really patient servant of God is as ready to bear inglorious troubles as those which are honorable. A brave man can easily bear with contempt, slander, and false accusations from an evil world; but to bear such injustice at the hands of good men, of friends and relations, is a great test of patience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You, O Books, are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of the clerical militia with which the missiles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4529]]></link><description><![CDATA[You, O Books, are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of the clerical militia with which the missiles of the most wicked are destroyed; fruitful olives, vines of Engaddi, fig-trees knowing no sterility; burning lamps to be ever held in the hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must always tell what one sees. Above all, which is more difficult, one must always see what one sees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44800]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must always tell what one sees. Above all, which is more difficult, one must always see what one sees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even play has ended in fierce strife and anger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even play has ended in fierce strife and anger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20049]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever the results of the referendum are ... it is a civilized step that aims to put Iraq on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever the results of the referendum are ... it is a civilized step that aims to put Iraq on the path of true democracy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A taste for simplicity cannot last for long. -Eugene Delacroix. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56356]]></link><description><![CDATA[A taste for simplicity cannot last for long. -Eugene Delacroix.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unhappiness does make people look stupid ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unhappiness does make people look stupid]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Economists are expecting a gradual slowdown in economic growth paired with a slowdown in inflation. That will allow the Federal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Economists are expecting a gradual slowdown in economic growth paired with a slowdown in inflation. That will allow the Federal Reserve to wind up its rate-hiking campaign.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I could have stopped it after they paid me the $50,000. I wouldn't even have had to go on to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28758]]></link><description><![CDATA[I could have stopped it after they paid me the $50,000. I wouldn't even have had to go on to do more than I already had: just the double agents' names that I gave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Presence is more than just being there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Presence is more than just being there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poet is someone who is astonished by everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25281]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poet is someone who is astonished by everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Globalization has altered the dynamics in the White House, as well as between the White House and the Treasury. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Globalization has altered the dynamics in the White House, as well as between the White House and the Treasury.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a very good option for people out there, for severe acne when other prescription medications have not worked. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37752]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a very good option for people out there, for severe acne when other prescription medications have not worked. We're hoping after the first month, this all kind of calms down. I'm sure it will be a good program eventually.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was an interest in being involved the community. There are many things that are beneficial in civilian life. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36201]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was an interest in being involved the community. There are many things that are beneficial in civilian life. It was the opportunity to work with many different people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can have all the intelligence in the world and don't have enough stamina. I have seen some very bright, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20194]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can have all the intelligence in the world and don't have enough stamina. I have seen some very bright, bright women who do not have the stamina for husbands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When at the close of each sad, sorrowing day, Fancy restores what vengeance snatch'd away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15285]]></link><description><![CDATA[When at the close of each sad, sorrowing day, Fancy restores what vengeance snatch'd away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prohibition is better than no liquor at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30989]]></link><description><![CDATA[My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can fool some of the people some of the time and all of the people some of the time, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28147]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can fool some of the people some of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65291]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2417]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cotton is king; or slavery in the Light of Political Economy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cotton is king; or slavery in the Light of Political Economy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64458]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was only a sunny smile and little it cost in the giving but like morning light it scattered the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18616]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was only a sunny smile and little it cost in the giving but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art always has something of the unconscious about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art always has something of the unconscious about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wear a Sardonyx or for thee No conjugal felicity.  The August-born without this stone   'Tis said must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wear a Sardonyx or for thee No conjugal felicity.  The August-born without this stone   'Tis said must live unloved and lone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mad Cows and Mad Pigs and Mad Fish say it is not 'you are what you eat' butthat we become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mad Cows and Mad Pigs and Mad Fish say it is not 'you are what you eat' butthat we become whom we eat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18953</guid></item></channel></rss>