<?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 so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64503]]></link><description><![CDATA[When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And as, when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green,  The Holly leaves a sober hue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19584]]></link><description><![CDATA[And as, when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green,  The Holly leaves a sober hue display   Less bright than they,    But when the bare and wintry woods we see,     What then so cheerful as the Holly-tree?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9052]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mass enormous! which, in modern days No two of earth's degenerate sons could raise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57940]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mass enormous! which, in modern days No two of earth's degenerate sons could raise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better the feet slip then the tongue. [Better the feet slip than the tongue.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better the feet slip then the tongue. [Better the feet slip than the tongue.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The trains were never forgotten, but the extent of their influence only came to light with the arrival of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39532]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The trains were never forgotten, but the extent of their influence only came to light with the arrival of the internet and the subsequent flowering of genealogical research. This obsession with roots will be felt especially keenly by foundlings, who often have no way of exploring their family histories.] I notice that genealogical sites now have warnings on them saying people should be ready for little surprises, ... They're not all going to find themselves descended from King Henry VIII or Richard Cur de Lion or Wellington. This is rather strange because it was pretty taken for granted a few generations ago that families had all kinds of little moments where things had gone not according to the book. It was just one of those things. You tried to accommodate it. There was no social welfare. You just had to sort it out within villages, the families, the parish. Children went to the workhouse, but people knew about it. Nowadays, there's a kind of surprise that these cases were so commonplace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59598]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soul, secured in her existence, smiles At the drawn dagger, and defies its point. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10270]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soul, secured in her existence, smiles At the drawn dagger, and defies its point.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Terrorists don't advise the passengers on board that there's a bomb on board. They just blow it up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30316]]></link><description><![CDATA[Terrorists don't advise the passengers on board that there's a bomb on board. They just blow it up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It’s time we framed every question - every issue -- not in terms of what’s in it for ‘me,’ but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12352]]></link><description><![CDATA[It’s time we framed every question - every issue -- not in terms of what’s in it for ‘me,’ but what’s in it for all of us? And when you ask that simple question - what’s in it for all of us? - the direction not taken in America could not be more clear or compelling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now there is no sense of urgency and no accountability. When we tell people that they are planning for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now there is no sense of urgency and no accountability. When we tell people that they are planning for the evacuation of only 20 percent of the people, they sign the petition right away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24573]]></link><description><![CDATA[The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water -- an inch deep and then the mud. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2458]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water -- an inch deep and then the mud.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Springes to catch woodcocks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Springes to catch woodcocks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much. -Oscar Wilde. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much. -Oscar Wilde.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965   The renewal of our natures is a work of great importance. It is not to be done in a day. We have not only a new house to build up, but an old one to pull down.   ... George Whitefield, letter   [Thanks to Bill Blake at pilgrimwb@aol.com]  September 7, 2000 Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957 There are three lessons I would write,  Three words, as with a burning pen, In tracings of eternal light,  Upon the hearts of men. Have Hope. Though clouds environ round,  And gladness hides her face in scorn,  Put off the shadow from thy brow:  No night but hath its morn. Have Faith. Where'er thy bark is driven -  The calm's disport, the tempest's mirth - Know this: God rules the hosts of heaven,  The inhabitants of earth. Have Love. Not love alone for one,  But man, as man, thy brother call;  And scatter, like a circling sun,  Thy charities on all.   ... Friedrich von Schiller  September 8, 2000   Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41190]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What does not destroy me, makes me strong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57943]]></link><description><![CDATA[What does not destroy me, makes me strong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22103]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21886]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God has called us to shine, just as much as Daniel was sent into Babylon to shine. Let no one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7109]]></link><description><![CDATA[God has called us to shine, just as much as Daniel was sent into Babylon to shine. Let no one say that he cannot shine because he has not so much influence as some others may have. What God wants you to do is to use the influence you have. Daniel probably did not have much influence down in Babylon at first, but God soon gave him more because he was faithful and used what he had.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47421]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however, are started by well-fed people with time on their hands to dream up half-baked ideologies or grandiose ambitions, and to nurse real or imagined grievances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cisco has an excellent track record of meeting analysts' expectations and the probability of them missing the estimate is low. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cisco has an excellent track record of meeting analysts' expectations and the probability of them missing the estimate is low.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a capacity in my soul for taking in God entirely. I am as sure as I live that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8393]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a capacity in my soul for taking in God entirely. I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God. God is nearer to me than I am to myself; my existence depends on the nearness and the presence of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot wish for that we know not. [Fr., On ne peut desirer ce qu'on ne connait pas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61793]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot wish for that we know not. [Fr., On ne peut desirer ce qu'on ne connait pas.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When clouds are seen wise men put on their cloaks; When great leaves fall then winter is at hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51513]]></link><description><![CDATA[When clouds are seen wise men put on their cloaks; When great leaves fall then winter is at hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals. -J. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals. -J. Isham.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65639]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman needs a stronger head than her own for counsel--she should marry. [Sp., Una muger no tiene.  Valor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26560]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman needs a stronger head than her own for counsel--she should marry. [Sp., Una muger no tiene.  Valor para el consejo, y la conviene Casarse.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To what happy accident is it that we owe so unexpected a visit? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/293]]></link><description><![CDATA[To what happy accident is it that we owe so unexpected a visit?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you go from facing 84 - 86 mph fastballs in Florida, to guys, to put it nicely, throwing slow, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42094]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you go from facing 84 - 86 mph fastballs in Florida, to guys, to put it nicely, throwing slow, it really tests your patience at the plate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People have been monitoring large-scale deforestation in the Amazon with satellites for more than two decades, but selective logging has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36181]]></link><description><![CDATA[People have been monitoring large-scale deforestation in the Amazon with satellites for more than two decades, but selective logging has been mostly invisible until now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They pretty much made the Freedom of Information Act a joke. It is like pulling teeth to try to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28417]]></link><description><![CDATA[They pretty much made the Freedom of Information Act a joke. It is like pulling teeth to try to get anything out of them these days. And I am talking about stuff that has historically been readily disclosed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is the seed of money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is the seed of money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12187]]></link><description><![CDATA[So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't talk to me about atrocities in war; all war is an atrocity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't talk to me about atrocities in war; all war is an atrocity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62403]]></link><description><![CDATA[A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In King Cambyses' vein. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55867]]></link><description><![CDATA[In King Cambyses' vein. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40477]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration. - My Summer in a Garden, 1871.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the industry is indeed vulnerable because what they are doing is not right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42425]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the industry is indeed vulnerable because what they are doing is not right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtually every company will be going out and empowering their workers with a certain set of tools, and the big ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtually every company will be going out and empowering their workers with a certain set of tools, and the big difference in how much value is received from that will be how much the company steps back and really thinks through their business processes…thinking through how their business can change, how their project management, their customer feedback, their planning cycles can be quite different than they ever were before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrower, among good authors is accounted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46644]]></link><description><![CDATA[For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrower, among good authors is accounted plagiary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20483</guid></item></channel></rss>