<?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[Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indecision may or may not be my problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indecision may or may not be my problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sitting at home the way I do, I'd just love the hear from people. It'd be a great help in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sitting at home the way I do, I'd just love the hear from people. It'd be a great help in passing the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed are the merciful; for they shall obtain mercy. [Mathew]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed are the merciful; for they shall obtain mercy. [Mathew].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think in my heart of hearts that had a big bearing on it, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42707]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think in my heart of hearts that had a big bearing on it,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's an expectation built into Nortel's valuation for the company to outperform relative to expectation and with all of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31761]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's an expectation built into Nortel's valuation for the company to outperform relative to expectation and with all of the indications prior to the call that the demand for optical remained quite strong, especially with service providers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59717]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them, for knowledge can only lead to love, and love to service. And so, if they are not touched by them, it's because th]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important thing about motivation is goal setting. You should always have a goal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43248]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important thing about motivation is goal setting. You should always have a goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A base of support within your own community is expected. It's a lot easier to talk to people if your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38642]]></link><description><![CDATA[A base of support within your own community is expected. It's a lot easier to talk to people if your own local investors have shown confidence in you. It provides credibility as well as some reciprocity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And have they fixed the where, and when? And shall Trelawny die?  Here's thirty thousand Cornish men   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45782]]></link><description><![CDATA[And have they fixed the where, and when? And shall Trelawny die?  Here's thirty thousand Cornish men   Will know the reason why!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man. Behold,  "There is a God," thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man. Behold,  "There is a God," thou sayest. Thou sayest well:   In that thou sayest all. To Be is more    Of wonderful, than being, to have wrought,     Or reigned, or rested.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thousand years scarce serve to form a state; An hour may lay it in the dust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17992]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thousand years scarce serve to form a state; An hour may lay it in the dust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3247]]></link><description><![CDATA[The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18063]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thérèse of Lisieux, Carmelite Nun, Spiritual Writer, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thérèse of Lisieux, Carmelite Nun, Spiritual Writer, 1897  When Paul speaks [II Cor. 3] of our being ministers of the New Testament, he does not refer to books most of which were not yet written, but to the gospel, which he found in the Scripture he possessed. The Jews could only see "Old Testament" in Moses and the prophets, because they were blind. To the spiritual all Scripture is gospel, or New Testament (the Law being the schoolmaster, bringing us to Christ), but to the natural and self righteous, as we ought to know from experience and observation, all Scripture (gospels and epistles included) is Old Testament, or Covenant of Works.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gee, I never thought I had an effect on people until I was in Korea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gee, I never thought I had an effect on people until I was in Korea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In good King Charles's golden days When royalty no harm meant,  A zealous high-churchman was I,   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54489]]></link><description><![CDATA[In good King Charles's golden days When royalty no harm meant,  A zealous high-churchman was I,   And so I got preferment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among mortals second thoughts are wisest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capacity constraints are clearly in the forefront and are what keeps the Fed going in the near term. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capacity constraints are clearly in the forefront and are what keeps the Fed going in the near term.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prospering just doesn't have to do with money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prospering just doesn't have to do with money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew coming in last year we had to guard one but he's got six or seven now that aren't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33765]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew coming in last year we had to guard one but he's got six or seven now that aren't shy of shooting. Seemed like they were raining in from everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52493]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Red, Hot and Blue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Red, Hot and Blue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19425]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed be the inventor of photography! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed be the inventor of photography! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has "cast up" in my time -- this art by which even the "poor" can possess themselves of tolerable of their absent dear ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're losing time. Time is working against us. I think we all pray and hope for a miracle, but this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38110]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're losing time. Time is working against us. I think we all pray and hope for a miracle, but this morning we're about to mark two weeks, and it's highly unlikely we're going to find anyone alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head,  And learning wiser grow without his books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head,  And learning wiser grow without his books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The last time we couldn't get anything going, ... (Saturday), we made some plays and were able to do some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34105]]></link><description><![CDATA[The last time we couldn't get anything going, ... (Saturday), we made some plays and were able to do some things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give the world the best that you have, and the best will come back to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give the world the best that you have, and the best will come back to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity is a feeble reed. [Fr., C'est un faible roseau que la prosperite.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity is a feeble reed. [Fr., C'est un faible roseau que la prosperite.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People can only live fully by helping others to live. When you give life to friends you truly live. Cultures ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10825]]></link><description><![CDATA[People can only live fully by helping others to live. When you give life to friends you truly live. Cultures can only realize their further richness by honoring other traditions. And only by respecting natural life can humanity continue to exist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel pretty good about (the retirement) because frankly there are not too many guys in my business who can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29864]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel pretty good about (the retirement) because frankly there are not too many guys in my business who can do it. I feel grateful the university has been so good to me and my family. I have a chancellor that has been very supportive of me, and his cooperation on what I wanted to do and how I wanted to do it. I think that is very unique to have a situation like that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And at my silent window-sill The jessamine peeps in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23120]]></link><description><![CDATA[And at my silent window-sill The jessamine peeps in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16044]]></link><description><![CDATA[The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Example is the best precept. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Example is the best precept.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11395]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's the difference between a 3-week-old puppy and a sportswriter? In 6 weeks, the puppy will stop whining. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23360]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's the difference between a 3-week-old puppy and a sportswriter? In 6 weeks, the puppy will stop whining.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Gospel is not presented to mankind as an argument about religious principles. Nor is it offered as a philosophy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6497]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Gospel is not presented to mankind as an argument about religious principles. Nor is it offered as a philosophy of life. Christianity is a witness to certain facts -- to events that have happened, to hopes that have been fulfilled, to realities that have been experienced, to a Person who has lived and died and been raised from the dead to reign for ever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is forever poised between a cliché and an indiscretion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20759]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is forever poised between a cliché and an indiscretion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Matrimony) is not by any to be entered into unadvisedly or lightly; but reverently, discreetly, advisedly, soberly, and in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26549]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Matrimony) is not by any to be entered into unadvisedly or lightly; but reverently, discreetly, advisedly, soberly, and in the fear of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion.   - William Makepeace Thackeray,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much of the scientific evidence that doctors rely upon to prescribe drugs is more like infomercials than scientific evidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much of the scientific evidence that doctors rely upon to prescribe drugs is more like infomercials than scientific evidence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18008]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold will be slave or master. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gold will be slave or master.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17801</guid></item></channel></rss>