<?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[Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64437]]></link><description><![CDATA[The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17872]]></link><description><![CDATA[If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His bark is worse than his bite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49000]]></link><description><![CDATA[His bark is worse than his bite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, since Thou hast taken from me all that I had of Thee, yet of Thy grace leave me the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, since Thou hast taken from me all that I had of Thee, yet of Thy grace leave me the gift which every dog has by nature: that of being true to Thee in my distress, when I am deprived of all consolation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50360]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We plan to re-certify our bid. We don't anticipate any changes. And we believe we have a very good shot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33659]]></link><description><![CDATA[We plan to re-certify our bid. We don't anticipate any changes. And we believe we have a very good shot at winning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of a misfit occupation. . . . Consider carefully your natural bent, whether for business or a profession. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of a misfit occupation. . . . Consider carefully your natural bent, whether for business or a profession.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember that you are needed. There is at least one important work to be done that will not be done ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember that you are needed. There is at least one important work to be done that will not be done unless you do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our necessities are few but our wants are endless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our necessities are few but our wants are endless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A people who's primary aims are driving, shopping, and television are subject to terrorism at any time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13018]]></link><description><![CDATA[A people who's primary aims are driving, shopping, and television are subject to terrorism at any time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's why photography is real. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42427]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's why photography is real.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53535]]></link><description><![CDATA[The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got some real good looks ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41653]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got some real good looks]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rational individualist is not the enemy of benevolence or civility, but their truest exemplar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52003]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rational individualist is not the enemy of benevolence or civility, but their truest exemplar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't count the days, make the days count. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't count the days, make the days count.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't tell you I'm satisfied with the results of the whole camera situation, because I'm not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28711]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't tell you I'm satisfied with the results of the whole camera situation, because I'm not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20851]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing. -Unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25212]]></link><description><![CDATA[The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Promising is the very air o' th' time; it opens the eyes of expectation. Performance is ever duller for his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14633]]></link><description><![CDATA[Promising is the very air o' th' time; it opens the eyes of expectation. Performance is ever duller for his act; and, but in the plainer and simpler kind of people, the deed of saying is quite out of use. To promise is most courtly and fashionable; performance is a kind of will or testament which argues a great sickness in his judgment that makes it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44374]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can never understand how we have been able to follow these worn-out tracks, which have been laid down by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42625]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can never understand how we have been able to follow these worn-out tracks, which have been laid down by panic in the face of nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strangers are friends you have yet to meet ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strangers are friends you have yet to meet]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The high note is not the only thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43530]]></link><description><![CDATA[The high note is not the only thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way of transgressors is hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48642]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way of transgressors is hard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65105]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll come back next week, see if we can lower our scores. We need to have them all have low ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30421]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll come back next week, see if we can lower our scores. We need to have them all have low scores on the same day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44141]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46712]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is a Sonnet? 'Tis the pearly shell That murmurs of the far-off, murmuring sea;  A precious jewel carved ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46763]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is a Sonnet? 'Tis the pearly shell That murmurs of the far-off, murmuring sea;  A precious jewel carved most curiously;   It is a little picture painted well.    What is a Sonnet? 'Tis the tear that fell     From a great poet's hidden ecstasy;      A two-edged sword, a star, a song--ah me!       Sometimes a heavy tolling funeral bell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis said the lion will turn and flee From a maid in the pride of her purity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48774]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis said the lion will turn and flee From a maid in the pride of her purity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beginning a short series on prayer:  Wherever... thou shalt be, pray secretly within thyself. If thou shalt be far ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beginning a short series on prayer:  Wherever... thou shalt be, pray secretly within thyself. If thou shalt be far from a house of prayer, give not thyself trouble to seek for one, for thou thyself art a sanctuary designed for prayer. If thou shalt be in bed, or in any other place, pray there; thy temple is there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace,  Secret joys and secret smiles,   Little pretty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace,  Secret joys and secret smiles,   Little pretty infant wiles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that gives should not remember, he that receives should neverforget. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21572]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that gives should not remember, he that receives should neverforget.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one wants advice -- only corroboration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/795]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one wants advice -- only corroboration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I paint things as they are. I don't comment.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64020]]></link><description><![CDATA[I paint things as they are. I don't comment.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abundance is not something weacquire. It is something we tune into. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abundance is not something weacquire. It is something we tune into.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56616]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before I knew the best part of my life had come, it had gone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before I knew the best part of my life had come, it had gone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Spiral!" the memorable Lady terms Our mind's ascent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48372]]></link><description><![CDATA["Spiral!" the memorable Lady terms Our mind's ascent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all have to die some day, if we live long enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11251]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11251</guid></item></channel></rss>