<?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[When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47590]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Run your fingers through my soul. For once, just once, feel exactly what I feel, believe what I believe, perceive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Run your fingers through my soul. For once, just once, feel exactly what I feel, believe what I believe, perceive as I perceive, look, experience, examine, and for once; just once, understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it -- it keeps him upright. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47165]]></link><description><![CDATA[A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it -- it keeps him upright.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54269]]></link><description><![CDATA[The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51936]]></link><description><![CDATA[The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47927]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation evermore!   - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45785]]></link><description><![CDATA[One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation evermore!   - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27678]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We gather strength from sadness and from pain Each time we die we learn to live again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54629]]></link><description><![CDATA[We gather strength from sadness and from pain Each time we die we learn to live again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/796]]></link><description><![CDATA[To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do it on his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hatt is not made for one shower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49035]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hatt is not made for one shower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65300]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35550]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody got away from what Pearl Jam are supposed to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37646]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody got away from what Pearl Jam are supposed to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resignation is the timid sign of courage ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resignation is the timid sign of courage]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing dries sooner then a teare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing dries sooner then a teare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's been a very real structural shift, primarily in manufacturing employment, as a result of outsourcing and earlier capital investment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40334]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's been a very real structural shift, primarily in manufacturing employment, as a result of outsourcing and earlier capital investment that has increased productivity. They're making employment act differently in this upturn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For low-priced, commodity-type products, automation is the most realistic venue as profit margins dictate that companies deploy LTC (linear time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40712]]></link><description><![CDATA[For low-priced, commodity-type products, automation is the most realistic venue as profit margins dictate that companies deploy LTC (linear time code) options, which are typically voice-automated, Web self-service, or offshore. For higher-priced products or consultative services such as furniture or retail financial services, the right balance between automation and live agent becomes more complex.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are trying to get the other eight people also freed soon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40272]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are trying to get the other eight people also freed soon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have need of patience with ourselves and with others; with those below and those above us, and with our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6641]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have need of patience with ourselves and with others; with those below and those above us, and with our own equals; with those who love us and those who love us not; for the greatest things and for the least; against sudden inroads of trouble, and under daily burdens; against disappointments as to the weather, or the breaking of the heart; in the weariness of the body, or the wearing of the soul; in our own failure of duty, or others' failure towards us; in every-day wants, or in the aching of sickness or the decay of old age; in disappointment, bereavement, losses, injuries, reproaches; in heaviness of the heart, or its sickness amid delayed hopes. In all these things, from childhood's little troubles to the martyr's sufferings, patience is the grace of God, whereby we endure evil for the love of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us- in the dreariest and most dreaded moments- can see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42935]]></link><description><![CDATA[God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us- in the dreariest and most dreaded moments- can see a possibility of hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world -- or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19519]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world -- or the last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66593]]></link><description><![CDATA[The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So full of artless jealousy is guilt It spills itself in fearing to be spilt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23166]]></link><description><![CDATA[So full of artless jealousy is guilt It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don't know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-defense is the clearest of all laws, and for this reason: lawyers didn't make it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-defense is the clearest of all laws, and for this reason: lawyers didn't make it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mellifluous Shakespeare, whose enchanting Quill Commandeth Mirth or Passion, was but Will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mellifluous Shakespeare, whose enchanting Quill Commandeth Mirth or Passion, was but Will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty down. Respect for one's superiors; care for one's crew. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty down. Respect for one's superiors; care for one's crew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We did a good job with Ruiz, and we had a couple of clear chances, but we could not capitalize ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31661]]></link><description><![CDATA[We did a good job with Ruiz, and we had a couple of clear chances, but we could not capitalize on them,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grades are a problem. On the most general level, they're an explicit acknowledgment that what you're doing is insufficiently interesting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grades are a problem. On the most general level, they're an explicit acknowledgment that what you're doing is insufficiently interesting or rewarding for you to do it on your own. Nobody ever gave you a grade for learning how to play, how to ride a bicycle, or how to kiss. One of the best ways to destroy love for any of these activities would be through the use of grades, and the coercion and judgment they represent. Grades are a cudgel to bludgeon the unwilling into doing what they don't want to do, an important instrument in inculcating children into a lifelong subservience to whatever authority happens to be thrust over them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After God created the world, He made man and woman. Then, to keep the whole thing from collapsing, He invented ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17653]]></link><description><![CDATA[After God created the world, He made man and woman. Then, to keep the whole thing from collapsing, He invented humor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52863]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10918]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5995]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favour. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favour. Andrea Ayvazian -Robert Frost (1874-1963).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Goat and the GoatherdA goatherd had sought to bring back a stray goat to his flock. He whistled and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1541]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Goat and the GoatherdA goatherd had sought to bring back a stray goat to his flock. He whistled and sounded his horn in vain; the straggler paid no attention to the summons. At last the Goatherd threw a stone, and breaking its horn, begged the Goat not to tell his master. The Goat replied, Why, you silly fellow, the horn will speak though I be silent. Do not attempt to hide things which cannot be hid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eternal Spring, with smiling Verdue here Warms the mild Air, and crowns the youthful year.  . . . . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eternal Spring, with smiling Verdue here Warms the mild Air, and crowns the youthful year.  . . . .   The Rose still blushes, and the vi'lets blow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One rose says more than the dozen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15845]]></link><description><![CDATA[One rose says more than the dozen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[At the Old-Time Radio Convention, which expects 600 attendees this weekend, leaders have begun inviting television stars -- over the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29667]]></link><description><![CDATA[[At the Old-Time Radio Convention, which expects 600 attendees this weekend, leaders have begun inviting television stars -- over the objections of purists who argue that only radio performers should be welcome.] If it becomes 'Friends of Old-Time Television,' I'm out of there, ... Let's Pretend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the biggest thing is that we have to replace a bunch of starters. We've lost 14 players. Up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42684]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the biggest thing is that we have to replace a bunch of starters. We've lost 14 players. Up front, we lose two who will be playing in the pros next year. We lost four really good players at linebacker.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thanksgiving (U.S.)  I thank Thee, O Lord God, that though with liberal hand Thou hast at all times showered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thanksgiving (U.S.)  I thank Thee, O Lord God, that though with liberal hand Thou hast at all times showered thy blessing upon our human kind, yet in Jesus Christ Thou hast done greater Things for us than Thou ever didst before:  Making home sweeter and friends dearer:  Turning sorrow into gladness and pain into the soul's victory:  Robbing death of its sting:  Robbing sin of its power Making peace more peaceful and joy more joyful and faith and hope more secure. Amen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mother understands what a child does not say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27090]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mother understands what a child does not say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27090</guid></item></channel></rss>