<?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[Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13114]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannonshots. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45980]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannonshots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The power of habit and the charm of novelty are the two adverse forces which explain the follies of mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52131]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power of habit and the charm of novelty are the two adverse forces which explain the follies of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never let formal education get in the way of your learning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a very demanding profession. There?s a need to be accurate, and if people keep running ragged, there?s this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37763]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a very demanding profession. There?s a need to be accurate, and if people keep running ragged, there?s this sense of burnout. We know our people need to rest and recover.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An executive is someone who makes a decision quickly and gets somebody else to do the work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52794]]></link><description><![CDATA[An executive is someone who makes a decision quickly and gets somebody else to do the work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we do know the sweet Roman hand. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55760]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we do know the sweet Roman hand. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66289]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politically, it's not a comfortable position for them to be in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politically, it's not a comfortable position for them to be in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like they said let's put a Post-it note on a turtle and then sit back and say we did ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38934]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like they said let's put a Post-it note on a turtle and then sit back and say we did our duty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But scandal's my aversion--I protest Against all evil speaking, even in jest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48723]]></link><description><![CDATA[But scandal's my aversion--I protest Against all evil speaking, even in jest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom of expression must be considered sacred and thought can only be corrected by counter thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom of expression must be considered sacred and thought can only be corrected by counter thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Cock and the Jewel A COCK, scratching for food for himself and his hens, found a precious stone and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1514]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Cock and the Jewel A COCK, scratching for food for himself and his hens, found a precious stone and exclaimed: If your owner had found thee, and not I, he would have taken thee up, and have set thee in thy first estate; but I have found thee for no purpose. I would rather have one barleycorn than all the jewels in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Eglantine Jebb, Social Reformer, Founder of 'Save the Children', 1928  The less you feel and the more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Eglantine Jebb, Social Reformer, Founder of 'Save the Children', 1928  The less you feel and the more firmly you believe, the more praiseworthy is your faith and the more it will be esteemed and appreciated; for real faith is much more than a mere opinion of man. In it we have true knowledge: in truth, we lack nothing save true faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They love him, gentlemen, and they respect him, not only for himself, but for his character, for his integrity and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13843]]></link><description><![CDATA[They love him, gentlemen, and they respect him, not only for himself, but for his character, for his integrity and judgment and iron will; but they love him most for the enemies he has made.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I live in Seattle, but I never see this much traffic clustered in one place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30434]]></link><description><![CDATA[I live in Seattle, but I never see this much traffic clustered in one place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the young die good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the young die good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are guaranteed you will win, you can take very inflammatory, very extreme positions. If you have to run ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52472]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are guaranteed you will win, you can take very inflammatory, very extreme positions. If you have to run in a district where where you might lose, you will move to the center. That is the beauty of the two party system in America as opposed to the parliamentary system in Europe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64912]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64298]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure; but modest doubt is called  The beacon of the wise, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12761]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure; but modest doubt is called  The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches   To th' bottom of the worst.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62465]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My sister and my sister's child, Myself and children three,  Will fill the chaise: so you must ride  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48933]]></link><description><![CDATA[My sister and my sister's child, Myself and children three,  Will fill the chaise: so you must ride   On horseback after me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since love and fear can hardly coexist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since love and fear can hardly coexist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The economy is not in a recession. This economy had enormous spending imbalances that it had to work out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37046]]></link><description><![CDATA[The economy is not in a recession. This economy had enormous spending imbalances that it had to work out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miseries of which I was an eye witness and in which I took a chief part. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Miseries of which I was an eye witness and in which I took a chief part.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're getting 184 million a year, and they are only spending about 6 million a year for maintenance. More of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37882]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're getting 184 million a year, and they are only spending about 6 million a year for maintenance. More of that should be spent to maintain the buildings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves. -Betty Friedan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves. -Betty Friedan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever turns away from truth perishes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever turns away from truth perishes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I felt like we got in a rhythm there in the second half. I think it was a definite improvement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35378]]></link><description><![CDATA[I felt like we got in a rhythm there in the second half. I think it was a definite improvement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18501]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod,  They have left unstained, what there they found,-- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod,  They have left unstained, what there they found,--   Freedom to worship God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a child all weather is cold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49990]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a child all weather is cold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Robust demand for cruise vacations continued into our seasonally strong summer period. Significant improvements in pricing, particularly for our North ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Robust demand for cruise vacations continued into our seasonally strong summer period. Significant improvements in pricing, particularly for our North American brands, more than compensated for increases in fuel costs, resulting in higher profits and another record third quarter,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dollar will weaken. We bought some euros below $1.20. We took advantage of the dip in the euro. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28441]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dollar will weaken. We bought some euros below $1.20. We took advantage of the dip in the euro.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24219]]></link><description><![CDATA[One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22837]]></link><description><![CDATA[But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It always seems impossible until its done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58026]]></link><description><![CDATA[It always seems impossible until its done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58026</guid></item></channel></rss>