<?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 page has been opened on the path to modernization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30090]]></link><description><![CDATA[A page has been opened on the path to modernization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31618]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commission. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commission.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thomas faked a late steal and the pitcher bit by throwing to first. It's actually a play we practiced on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thomas faked a late steal and the pitcher bit by throwing to first. It's actually a play we practiced on for about a half hour the day before the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12737]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64162]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20269]]></link><description><![CDATA[An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm still looking for places to sell the dollar. We're assuming that the Fed is nearing the end of its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34922]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm still looking for places to sell the dollar. We're assuming that the Fed is nearing the end of its tightening cycle. That's a reason to sell dollars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It affects the income, no doubt. Most people just want to wait for the good days. But figuring which days ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30005]]></link><description><![CDATA[It affects the income, no doubt. Most people just want to wait for the good days. But figuring which days those are is hard enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[BA is strategically focusing on profitable traffic, and that means it's turning away a lot of people who are prepared ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31732]]></link><description><![CDATA[BA is strategically focusing on profitable traffic, and that means it's turning away a lot of people who are prepared to pay a decent fare to transfer,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am determined to see the job through. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42711]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am determined to see the job through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The last two years it has been working for us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40784]]></link><description><![CDATA[The last two years it has been working for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity is stronger far than art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity is stronger far than art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ascension  Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788  The grand reason why the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ascension  Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788  The grand reason why the miraclous gifts were so soon withdrawn was not only that faith and holiness were well-nigh lost, but that dry, formal, orthodox men began then to ridicule whatever gifts they had not themselves and to cry them all [down] as evil madness or imposture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up, and goes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5099]]></link><description><![CDATA[In simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up, and goes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Live like yourself," was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13251]]></link><description><![CDATA["Live like yourself," was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every noble work is at first impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every noble work is at first impossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A late lark twitters from the quiet skies: And from the west,  Where the sun, his day's work ended, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44525]]></link><description><![CDATA[A late lark twitters from the quiet skies: And from the west,  Where the sun, his day's work ended,   Lingers as in content,    There falls on the old, gray city     An influence luminous and serene,      A shining peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, come away; Why dost thou stay? Thy road is ready and thy paths made straight With longing expectations wait ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, come away; Why dost thou stay? Thy road is ready and thy paths made straight With longing expectations wait The consecration of thy beautious feet. Ride on triumphantly; behold! we lay Our lusts and proud wills in thy way. Hosannah! welcome to our hearts: Lord, here Thou hast a temple too, and full as dear  As that of Sion; and as full of sin -- Nothing but thieves and robbers dwell therein; Enter and chase them forth, and cleanse the floor,  Crucify them, that they may never more Profane that holy place Where thou hast chose to set thy face. And then if our still tongues shall be  Mute in the praises of thy deity, The stones out of the temple wall  Shall cry aloud and call Hosannah! and thy glorious footsteps greet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is perhaps no better way of measuring the natural endowment of a soul than by its ability to transmute ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47605]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is perhaps no better way of measuring the natural endowment of a soul than by its ability to transmute dissatisfaction into a creative impulse. The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary, yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24607]]></link><description><![CDATA[A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some day Love shall claim his own Some day Right ascend his throne,  Some day hidden Truth be known; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some day Love shall claim his own Some day Right ascend his throne,  Some day hidden Truth be known;   Some day--some sweet day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, better no doubt is a dinner of herbs, When season'd with love, which no rancour disturbs  And sweeten'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, better no doubt is a dinner of herbs, When season'd with love, which no rancour disturbs  And sweeten'd by all that is sweetest in life   Than turbot, bisque, ortolans, eaten in strife!    But if, out of humour, and hungry, alone     A man should sit down to dinner, each one      Of the dishes which the cook chooses to spoil       With a horrible mixture of garlic and oil,        The chances are ten against one, I must own,         He gets up as ill-tempered as when he sat down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of us have not much time to lose [to begin loving]. Remember, once more, that this is a matter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of us have not much time to lose [to begin loving]. Remember, once more, that this is a matter of life and death. I cannot help speaking urgently, for myself, for yourselves. "Whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea." That is to say, it is the deliberate verdict of the Lord Jesus that it is better not to have lived than not to love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Asians are the original Conservatives because for thousands of years we have believed in free enterprise… you have just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15765]]></link><description><![CDATA[We Asians are the original Conservatives because for thousands of years we have believed in free enterprise… you have just stolen our philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too. No, sir, these, I protest you, are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3052]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too. No, sir, these, I protest you, are too hard for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43465]]></link><description><![CDATA[May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return  Esteems that busy world an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20332]]></link><description><![CDATA[How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return  Esteems that busy world an idler too!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be. [Lat., Hoc ego, tuque sumus: set quod sum, non potes esse:  Tu quod es, e populo quilibet esse potest.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; every little absence is an age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; every little absence is an age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Greek word euphuia, a finely tempered nature, gives exactly the notion of perfection as culture brings us to perceive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58483]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Greek word euphuia, a finely tempered nature, gives exactly the notion of perfection as culture brings us to perceive it; a harmonious perfection, a perfection in which the characters of beauty and intelligence are both present, which unites "the two noblest of things"--as Swift . . . most happily calls them in his Battle of the Books, "the two noblest of things, sweetness and light."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men are not slimy warthogs. Some men are silly giraffes, some woebegone puppies, some insecure frogs. But if one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27036]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men are not slimy warthogs. Some men are silly giraffes, some woebegone puppies, some insecure frogs. But if one is not careful, those slimy warthogs can ruin it for all the others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have no enemies it is a sign fortune has forgot you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50996]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have no enemies it is a sign fortune has forgot you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no accidents without intentions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/309]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no accidents without intentions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most. [Lat., Si stimulos pugnis caedis manibus plus dolet.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58205]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most. [Lat., Si stimulos pugnis caedis manibus plus dolet.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For men, at most, differ as heaven and earth; But women, worst and best, as heaven and hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51696]]></link><description><![CDATA[For men, at most, differ as heaven and earth; But women, worst and best, as heaven and hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In politics stupidity is not a handicap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46918]]></link><description><![CDATA[In politics stupidity is not a handicap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jerry: I love you ... you complete me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jerry: I love you ... you complete me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weep not that the world changes--did it keep A stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weep not that the world changes--did it keep A stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You might point out to Howard Davies that he could get no better grounding in the game of hurling than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39814]]></link><description><![CDATA[You might point out to Howard Davies that he could get no better grounding in the game of hurling than to check out the Offaly Senior Hurling Championship Q/F featuring Birr against Lusmagh next Saturday evening, with the 'throw-in' at 4:30pm in Banagher. No prizes for guessing who you'll be shouting for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The morning that my baby came They found a baby swallow dead,  And saw a something hard to name ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3635]]></link><description><![CDATA[The morning that my baby came They found a baby swallow dead,  And saw a something hard to name   Fly mothlike over baby's bed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of confidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53600]]></link><description><![CDATA[I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of confidence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures. [Lat., Omnibus in rebus voluptatibus maximis fastidium finitimum est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46696]]></link><description><![CDATA[In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures. [Lat., Omnibus in rebus voluptatibus maximis fastidium finitimum est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46696</guid></item></channel></rss>