<?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[If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even a s Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13638]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even a s Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58729]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A "Bay Area Bisexual" told me I didn't quite coincide witheither of her desires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22752]]></link><description><![CDATA[A "Bay Area Bisexual" told me I didn't quite coincide witheither of her desires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bulls make money. Bears make money. Pigs get slaughtered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bulls make money. Bears make money. Pigs get slaughtered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So far, we've had 7.36 inches (of rain) for the year. Normal is about 4.51, so we're well above it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38407]]></link><description><![CDATA[So far, we've had 7.36 inches (of rain) for the year. Normal is about 4.51, so we're well above it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know that there are any short cuts to doing a good job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64115]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know that there are any short cuts to doing a good job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Around, around in ceaseless circles wheeling With clangs of wings and scream, the Eagle sailed  Incessantly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Around, around in ceaseless circles wheeling With clangs of wings and scream, the Eagle sailed  Incessantly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9954]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56906]]></link><description><![CDATA[The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man or woman has achieved an effective personality who is not self-disciplined. Such discipline must not be an end ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1249]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man or woman has achieved an effective personality who is not self-disciplined. Such discipline must not be an end in itself, but must be directed to the development of resolute Christian character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64205]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing, thou elder brother e'en to shade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing, thou elder brother e'en to shade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22868]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64806]]></link><description><![CDATA[A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning why one great book is just like every other great book is the key to understanding literature ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning why one great book is just like every other great book is the key to understanding literature]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Naps are nature's way of reminding you that life is nice - like a beautiful, softly swinging hammock strung between ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Naps are nature's way of reminding you that life is nice - like a beautiful, softly swinging hammock strung between birth and infinity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like the body that is made up of different limbs and organs, all moral creatures must depend on each other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like the body that is made up of different limbs and organs, all moral creatures must depend on each other to exist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25985]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44249]]></link><description><![CDATA[A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser than the one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser than the one that comes after it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/933]]></link><description><![CDATA[If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57049]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More than we use is more than we want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11978]]></link><description><![CDATA[More than we use is more than we want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Folks that blurt out just what they think wouldn't be so bad if they thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Folks that blurt out just what they think wouldn't be so bad if they thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3316]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope." Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persuasion tips his tongue whene'er he talks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persuasion tips his tongue whene'er he talks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adversity makes a man wise, not rich ... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adversity makes a man wise, not rich ...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34757]]></link><description><![CDATA[We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is state-of-the-art for right now, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29224]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is state-of-the-art for right now,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are proud to add our software offering and talent to the Harris team. Both customers and employees will benefit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34163]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are proud to add our software offering and talent to the Harris team. Both customers and employees will benefit from the size and resources of Harris, and the long-term commitment Harris has made to the media industry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57685]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who wishes to injure another, will soon find a pretext. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51615]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who wishes to injure another, will soon find a pretext.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44195]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, often have I thought to myself, I will sin but this one sin more, and then I will repent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, often have I thought to myself, I will sin but this one sin more, and then I will repent of it, and of all the rest of my sins together. So foolish was I, and ignorant. As if I should be more able to pay my debts when I owe more: or as if I should say, I will wound my friend once again, and then I will lovingly shake hands with him -- but what if my friend will not shake hands with me?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to learn how to harness technology so you can use it for positive stuff without being disconnected from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66357]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to learn how to harness technology so you can use it for positive stuff without being disconnected from nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pirates could happen to anyone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pirates could happen to anyone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion . . . . I myself prefer to laugh, since ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion . . . . I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17964]]></link><description><![CDATA[When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It keeps getting bigger and better each year, and keeping Macon is in the equation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31682]]></link><description><![CDATA[It keeps getting bigger and better each year, and keeping Macon is in the equation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must do the thing you think you cannot do ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12727]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must do the thing you think you cannot do]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confine yourself to the present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confine yourself to the present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64798</guid></item></channel></rss>