<?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[I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1395]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am deeply saddened and shocked by the death of Gene Pitney. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41406]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am deeply saddened and shocked by the death of Gene Pitney.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deeds of violence in our society are performed largely by those trying to establish their self-esteem, to defend their self-image, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57031]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deeds of violence in our society are performed largely by those trying to establish their self-esteem, to defend their self-image, and to demonstrate that they, too, are significant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avarice, envy, pride. Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all on Fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avarice, envy, pride. Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all on Fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Redbreast, sacred to the household gods, Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky,  In joyless fields and thorny thickets ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54342]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Redbreast, sacred to the household gods, Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky,  In joyless fields and thorny thickets leaves   His shivering mates, and pays to trusted Man    His annual visit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12726]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - and never knowing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In most parts of the Bible, everything is implicitly or explicitly introduced with "Thus saith the Lord". It is... not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8511]]></link><description><![CDATA[In most parts of the Bible, everything is implicitly or explicitly introduced with "Thus saith the Lord". It is... not merely a sacred book but a book so remorselessly and continuously sacred that it does not invite -- it excludes or repels -- the merely aesthetic approach. You can read it as literature only by a tour de force... It demands incessantly to be taken on its own terms: it will not continue to give literary delight very long, except to those who go to it for something quite different. I predict that it will in the future be read, as it always has been read, almost exclusively by Christians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13228]]></link><description><![CDATA[You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17950]]></link><description><![CDATA[My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18757]]></link><description><![CDATA[A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36860]]></link><description><![CDATA[After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would make it awfully difficult to do sewer projects in the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32160]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would make it awfully difficult to do sewer projects in the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are not at your ideal body weight and are not active, over time, you have a risk of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42080]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are not at your ideal body weight and are not active, over time, you have a risk of diabetes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rock-bye-baby on the tree top, When the wind blows the cradle will rock.  When the bough bends the cradle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rock-bye-baby on the tree top, When the wind blows the cradle will rock.  When the bough bends the cradle will fall,   Down comes the baby, cradle and all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say Jessica was working on a math problem ... I would always try to illustrate the solution by drawing things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say Jessica was working on a math problem ... I would always try to illustrate the solution by drawing things out. And she just started to copy what I was doing. Of course, as she got better at it, I would show her the 3-d aspect of shading or how to render perspective and she could just do it. She would just pick it up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12734]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like being infamous. I think it is safe being a cult. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28370]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like being infamous. I think it is safe being a cult.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Riches are first to be sought for; after wealth, virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Riches are first to be sought for; after wealth, virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. -Ferdinand Foch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22804]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. -Ferdinand Foch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember this, - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember this, - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness.Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness.Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means forcorrecting our misperceptions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Potential customers have more faith and confidence in the financial health of IBM. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Potential customers have more faith and confidence in the financial health of IBM.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65323]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eternity is really long, especially near the end ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eternity is really long, especially near the end]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They never, ever stop playing hard no matter what. I couldn't be more proud of everything they've accomplished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33961]]></link><description><![CDATA[They never, ever stop playing hard no matter what. I couldn't be more proud of everything they've accomplished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62149]]></link><description><![CDATA[A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose, and due leisure, whether he be a painter or ploughman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631  Though natural men, who have induced secondary and figurative consideration, have found ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631  Though natural men, who have induced secondary and figurative consideration, have found out this... emblematical use of sleep, that it should be a representation of death, God, who wrought and perfected his work, before Nature began, (for Nature was but his Apprentice, to learn in the first seven days, and now is his foreman, and works next under him) God, I say, intended sleep only for the refreshing of man by bodily rest, and not for a figure of death, for he intended not death itself then. But Man having induced death upon himself, God hath taken Man's Creature, death, into his hand, and mended it, and whereas it hath in itself a fearfull form and aspect, so that Man is afraid of his own Creature, God presents it to him, in a familiar, in an assiduous, in an agreeable and acceptable form, in sleep, that so when he awakes from sleep and says to himself, shall I be no otherwise when I am dead, than I was even now, when I was asleep, he may be ashamed of his waking dreams, and of his Melancholique fancying out a horrid and an affrightful figure of that death which is so like sleep. As then we need sleep to live out our threescore and ten years, so we need death, to live that life which we cannot out-live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn from the earliest days to insure your principles against the perils of ridicule; you can no more exercise your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn from the earliest days to insure your principles against the perils of ridicule; you can no more exercise your reason if you live in the constant dread of laughter, that you can enjoy your life if you are in the constant terror of death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is Too Slow for those who Wait,  Too Swift for those who Fear,   Too Long for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is Too Slow for those who Wait,  Too Swift for those who Fear,   Too Long for those who Grieve,    Too Short for those who Rejoice;     But for those who Love,      Time is not.   - Henry Jackson van Dyke,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is better for the environment than the standard diesel we're using. And the second thing to consider is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31272]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is better for the environment than the standard diesel we're using. And the second thing to consider is the cost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers. Tacitus -Franklin D. Roosevelt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24465]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers. Tacitus -Franklin D. Roosevelt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4352]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/82]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/82</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I guess that there isn't a better time for it. I was getting good screens and our guys were getting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33045]]></link><description><![CDATA[I guess that there isn't a better time for it. I was getting good screens and our guys were getting me the ball when I was open. So you can't ask for anything more than that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex is like air; it's not important unless you aren't getting any ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex is like air; it's not important unless you aren't getting any]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's nice about my dating life is that I don't have to leave my house. All I have to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11105]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's nice about my dating life is that I don't have to leave my house. All I have to do is read the paper: I'm marrying Richard Gere, dating Daniel Day-Lewis, parading around with John F. Kennedy, Jr., and even Robert De Niro was in there for a day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Georgia's the team to beat. Everybody pretty much acknowledges that, but we're 1-0 against them, and I don't think our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Georgia's the team to beat. Everybody pretty much acknowledges that, but we're 1-0 against them, and I don't think our kids are ready to concede.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While global economic growth rates have slowed from the exceptionally high levels of 2004, the emerging economies remain buoyant, offsetting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33801]]></link><description><![CDATA[While global economic growth rates have slowed from the exceptionally high levels of 2004, the emerging economies remain buoyant, offsetting slowing industrial production growth in the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) nations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33801</guid></item></channel></rss>