<?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 disaster in New Orleans] is not an act of god, ... This is an act of man. The federal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30045]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The disaster in New Orleans] is not an act of god, ... This is an act of man. The federal government refused to spend the money to improve the levees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62785]]></link><description><![CDATA[A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And poets by their sufferings grow,-- As if there were no more to do,  To make a poet excellent, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46848]]></link><description><![CDATA[And poets by their sufferings grow,-- As if there were no more to do,  To make a poet excellent,   But only want and discontent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55116]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Approbation from Sir Hubert Stanley is praise indeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Approbation from Sir Hubert Stanley is praise indeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11801]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He hath no power that hath not power to use. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47933]]></link><description><![CDATA[He hath no power that hath not power to use.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We meet thee, like a pleasant thought, When such are wanted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10999]]></link><description><![CDATA[We meet thee, like a pleasant thought, When such are wanted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not to wax nostalgic about the 1970’s, but back then people got upset when they saw injustice. They got tired ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not to wax nostalgic about the 1970’s, but back then people got upset when they saw injustice. They got tired of seeing our air, land and water polluted. They were shocked when the Cuyahoga River in Ohio was polluted so badly it caught fire. And on one great day 20 million Americans marched all across this land. Politicians had no choice but to take notice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He told me once The saddest thing that can befall the soul,  Is when it loses faith in God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51550]]></link><description><![CDATA[He told me once The saddest thing that can befall the soul,  Is when it loses faith in God and woman,   For he had lost them both. Lost I those gems,    Though the world's throne stood open in my path,     I would go wandering back into my childhood,      Searching for them with tears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We started out great today but just couldn't maintain our focus all the way through. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36043]]></link><description><![CDATA[We started out great today but just couldn't maintain our focus all the way through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To err is human; to forget, divine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16519]]></link><description><![CDATA[To err is human; to forget, divine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10266]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that plaies his mony ought not to value it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49386]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that plaies his mony ought not to value it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holy Saturday All night had shouts of men and cry  Of woeful women filled His way; Until that noon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Holy Saturday All night had shouts of men and cry  Of woeful women filled His way; Until that noon of sombre sky  On Friday, clamour and display Smote Him; no solitude had He. No silence, since Gethsemane. Public was death; but power, but might,  But life again, but victory, Were hushed within the dead of night,  The shuttered dark, the secrecy. And all alone, alone, alone He rose again behind the stone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two kinds of coaches - those who have been fired and those who will be fired ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8934]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two kinds of coaches - those who have been fired and those who will be fired]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I take it that every Christian delivers himself up wholly to God in his baptism, when he renounces all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8372]]></link><description><![CDATA[I take it that every Christian delivers himself up wholly to God in his baptism, when he renounces all the pomps and vanities of Satan, and enlists himself as a soldier to fight under Christ's banner all his life after. And Saint Paul, speaking of those that die with Christ, that they may live no longer to themselves, but to Him that died for them, does not mean this of monks only, but of Christians universally.  ... The Colloquies of Erasmus July 13, 1999  Do right, and God's recompense to you will be the power of doing more right. Give, and God's reward to you will be the spirit of giving more: a blessed spirit, for it is the Spirit of God Himself, whose Life is the blessedness of giving. Love, and God will pay you with the capacity of more love; for love is Heaven: love is God within you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To eat at another's table is your ambition's height. [Lat., Bona summa putes, aliena vivere quadra.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13217]]></link><description><![CDATA[To eat at another's table is your ambition's height. [Lat., Bona summa putes, aliena vivere quadra.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not that the ground motions in 1906 were significantly larger than those in 1989it's that the area experiencing intense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30387]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not that the ground motions in 1906 were significantly larger than those in 1989it's that the area experiencing intense shaking was much, much greater. We don't know if the next rupture will look like 1906 earthquake, but we know that many of the same areas hit hard in 1906, like San Francisco, Santa Rosa, and the Santa Cruz mountains will be hit hard again in the next large earthquake on the San Andreas Fault .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To attract men I wear a perfume called "new car interior.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25749]]></link><description><![CDATA[To attract men I wear a perfume called "new car interior.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45174]]></link><description><![CDATA[The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The monarch has become a symbol for cross border co-operation in North America. Let's hope it doesn't become the symbol ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36589]]></link><description><![CDATA[The monarch has become a symbol for cross border co-operation in North America. Let's hope it doesn't become the symbol of our common failure to protect the environment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was happy about it, because now I could just throw everything in one big bin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36399]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was happy about it, because now I could just throw everything in one big bin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A load would sink a navy. -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56043]]></link><description><![CDATA[A load would sink a navy. -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57091]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as the facts are shown to be opposed to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are one, after all, you and I. Together we suffer, together exist, and forever will recreate each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44909]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are one, after all, you and I. Together we suffer, together exist, and forever will recreate each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't get too much winter in the winter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65776]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't get too much winter in the winter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never advocated war except as a means of peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61186]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had it easier than they did. We were recognized by the council. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34350]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had it easier than they did. We were recognized by the council.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a major challenge. We are aware of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28277]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a major challenge. We are aware of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28161]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and an invisible labour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59220]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and an invisible labour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who doth not feel, until his failing sight Faints into dimness with its own delight,  His changing cheek, his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who doth not feel, until his failing sight Faints into dimness with its own delight,  His changing cheek, his sinking heart confess,   The might--the majesty of Loveliness?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41624]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of Americans think they got a tax cut, and they didn't because their local property tax went up, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14455]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of Americans think they got a tax cut, and they didn't because their local property tax went up, their excise tax went up, their sales tax went up, and their prices went up and everything else, because we failed to invest in some of these other things we ought to be doing. ... We are squeezing the middle class, we are losing the middle class, and the gap between the haves and the have-nots is growing wider and wider, not closing as it used to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't let something that doesn't matter cause you to lose something that does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't let something that doesn't matter cause you to lose something that does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The really idle man gets nowhere. The perpetually busy mandoes not get much further. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22169]]></link><description><![CDATA[The really idle man gets nowhere. The perpetually busy mandoes not get much further.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tooth-ach is more ease then to deale with ill people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49925]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tooth-ach is more ease then to deale with ill people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is always a way-if you're committed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21329]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is always a way-if you're committed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wanted to keep the speed and stability of a longer ski but make it a lot more maneuverable. It's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30031]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted to keep the speed and stability of a longer ski but make it a lot more maneuverable. It's just all about the surface area. All of our skis are shorter than most, but they have the same surface area -- and that's what determines the speed and stability, the actual amount of ski on the snow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaidand deeds left undone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11350]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaidand deeds left undone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman's appetite is twice that of a man's; her sexual desire, four times; her intelligence, eight times ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2889]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman's appetite is twice that of a man's; her sexual desire, four times; her intelligence, eight times]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27254]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has very small and delicate ears. It's not all flour corn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39432]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has very small and delicate ears. It's not all flour corn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men never do evil so fully and so happily as when they do it for conscience's sake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men never do evil so fully and so happily as when they do it for conscience's sake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24988]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24988</guid></item></channel></rss>