<?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[A cup of coffee - real coffee - home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8943]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cup of coffee - real coffee - home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a hazel-eye, but changes to a golden bronze as you temper it with cream that never cheated, but was real cream from its birth, thick, tenderly yellow, perfectly sweet, neither lumpy nor frothing on the Java: such a cup of coffee is a match for twenty blue devils and will exorcise them all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I marched the lobby, twirled my stick, . . . .  The girls all cried, "He's quite the kick." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16421]]></link><description><![CDATA[I marched the lobby, twirled my stick, . . . .  The girls all cried, "He's quite the kick."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real life seems to have no plots. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real life seems to have no plots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66558]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A clever person turns great troubles into little ones and little ones into none at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59738]]></link><description><![CDATA[A clever person turns great troubles into little ones and little ones into none at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remorse for what? You people have done everything in the world to me. Doesn't that give me equal right? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remorse for what? You people have done everything in the world to me. Doesn't that give me equal right?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stir not dying embers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stir not dying embers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom springs.  [Lat., Medio ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom springs.  [Lat., Medio de fonte leporum   Surgit amari aliquid, quod in ipsis floribus angat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get what you reward. Be clear about what you want to get and systematically reward it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54164]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get what you reward. Be clear about what you want to get and systematically reward it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only test of leadership is that somebody follows. Lance Secretan, Industry Week, 10/12/98 -Robert K. Greenleaf. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24470]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only test of leadership is that somebody follows. Lance Secretan, Industry Week, 10/12/98 -Robert K. Greenleaf.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But to me the actual sound of the words is all important; I feel always that the words complete the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44925]]></link><description><![CDATA[But to me the actual sound of the words is all important; I feel always that the words complete the music and must never be swallowed up in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really don't want this to be goodbye. I'm not leaving anywhere. I'm still going to be around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32833]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really don't want this to be goodbye. I'm not leaving anywhere. I'm still going to be around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9395]]></link><description><![CDATA[May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery. -Patrick Blackett.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Christian should participate in social and political efforts in order to have an influence in the work, not with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8301]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Christian should participate in social and political efforts in order to have an influence in the work, not with the hope of making a paradise (of the earth), but simply to make it more tolerable -- not to diminish the opposition between this world and the Kingdom of God, but simply to modify the opposition between the disorder of this world and the order of preservation that God wants it to have -- not to bring in the Kingdom of God, but so that the Gospel might be proclaimed in order that all men might truly hear the good news.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25392]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63678]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63686]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23140]]></link><description><![CDATA[All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lonely sunsets flare forlorn Down valleys dreadly desolate;  The lonely mountains soar in scorn   As still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58338]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lonely sunsets flare forlorn Down valleys dreadly desolate;  The lonely mountains soar in scorn   As still as death, as stern as fate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How calm, how beautiful comes on The stilly hour, when storms are gone!  When warring winds have died away, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50688]]></link><description><![CDATA[How calm, how beautiful comes on The stilly hour, when storms are gone!  When warring winds have died away,   And clouds, beneath the glancing ray,    Melt off, and leave the land and sea     Sleeping in bright tranquillity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I’ve learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58369]]></link><description><![CDATA[I’ve learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I did actually think about that quite long and hard, I must admit, when you've been No.1 for 10 years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35428]]></link><description><![CDATA[I did actually think about that quite long and hard, I must admit, when you've been No.1 for 10 years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19927]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why then we should drop into poetry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why then we should drop into poetry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A child miseducated is a child lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13499]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child miseducated is a child lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God gives his wrath by weight, and without weight his mercy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49269]]></link><description><![CDATA[God gives his wrath by weight, and without weight his mercy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The brave man is not he who feels no fear. For that were stupid and irrational. But he, whose noble ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10324]]></link><description><![CDATA[The brave man is not he who feels no fear. For that were stupid and irrational. But he, whose noble soul its fears subdues, and bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936   [The Christian] refuses to give his heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936   [The Christian] refuses to give his heart to, or be taken in by, the values and pleasures off this passing world. He does not hesitate to use all that is good and beautiful and true, partly because he knows that his God gives him "richly all things to enjoy", and partly because he knows that in all life's impermanent beauties and pleasures, there is the promise of the real and permanent which he is thoroughly convinced will exceed his wildest expectations. (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is nice to finish the home season with a victory, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41973]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is nice to finish the home season with a victory,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We thought it would do OK, but we weren't sure. We didn't have a crystal ball, and we didn't say, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32556]]></link><description><![CDATA[We thought it would do OK, but we weren't sure. We didn't have a crystal ball, and we didn't say, 'Oh yeah, it's a smash.' We liked the song but didn't know if it would be the best to debut the album with. But there is something special about the song. People caught onto it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all have our down days, but it's not hard to smile and say, 'Thank you.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66702]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all have our down days, but it's not hard to smile and say, 'Thank you.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our local programming teams have done an extraordinary job creating great Spanish-language radio that has resulted in impressive audience growth, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our local programming teams have done an extraordinary job creating great Spanish-language radio that has resulted in impressive audience growth, ... In San Jose alone, time spent listening for persons 12+ in Spring 2005 surged 205% versus Spring 2004. That's a clear indication that our stations are airing great programming that U.S. Hispanics have been looking for on the radio.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes, and thanks to words, we have sunk to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes, and thanks to words, we have sunk to the level of the demons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942   The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942   The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men whom they met cried aloud to them. Their own desire for the revelation of the glory of Jesus in the salvation of men went out towards those whom they met, and was immediately answered by the recognition of the need of those whom they met for Jesus Christ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth it's spark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15426]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They called the windlackadaisical..but because he in freedom blowsthe world will neverlack for daisies..(to Laurie Otto Milwaukee Wisconsin advocate of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4027]]></link><description><![CDATA[They called the windlackadaisical..but because he in freedom blowsthe world will neverlack for daisies..(to Laurie Otto Milwaukee Wisconsin advocate of wild lawns)http://www.epa.gov/greenacreshttp://www.egroups.com/messages/nomow108/1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges. -Twelfth Night. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges. -Twelfth Night. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's not the policy or the way we operate public affairs at NASA. We support and make sure we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33297]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's not the policy or the way we operate public affairs at NASA. We support and make sure we are all about full and open communications.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While you are destroying your mind watching the worthless, brain-rotting drivel on TV, we on the Internet are exchanging, freely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22958]]></link><description><![CDATA[While you are destroying your mind watching the worthless, brain-rotting drivel on TV, we on the Internet are exchanging, freely and openly, the most uninhibited, intimate and, yes, shocking details about our "CONFIG.SYS" settings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every why hath a wherefore. -The Comedy of Errors. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every why hath a wherefore. -The Comedy of Errors. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most protean aspect of comedy is its potentiality for transcending itself, for responding to the conditions of tragedy by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8969]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most protean aspect of comedy is its potentiality for transcending itself, for responding to the conditions of tragedy by laughing in the darkness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Et tu, Brute! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Et tu, Brute!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4171</guid></item></channel></rss>