<?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[These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4506]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These eyes, tho' clear To outward view of blemish or of spot,  Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4341]]></link><description><![CDATA[These eyes, tho' clear To outward view of blemish or of spot,  Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot,   Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear    Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year,     Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not      Against Heaven's hand or will, not bate a jot       Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer        Right onward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who civilly shows the way to one who has missed it, is as one who has lighted another's lamp ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19158]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who civilly shows the way to one who has missed it, is as one who has lighted another's lamp from his own lamp; it none the less gives light to himself when it burns for the other. [Lat., Homo qui erranti comiter monstrat viam,  Quasi lumen de suo lumine accendit, facit:   Nihilominus ipsi luceat, cum illi accenderit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret to getting ahead is getting started. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65952]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret to getting ahead is getting started.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High noon behind the tamarisks, the sun is hot above us-- As at home the Christmas Day is breaking wan, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8634]]></link><description><![CDATA[High noon behind the tamarisks, the sun is hot above us-- As at home the Christmas Day is breaking wan,  They will drink our healths at dinner, those who tell us how they love us,   And forget us till another year be gone!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature abhors a vacuum. [Fr., Natura abhorret vacuum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature abhors a vacuum. [Fr., Natura abhorret vacuum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brandon really pitched well all game. That first inning his defensive just didn't help him out. That was kind of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brandon really pitched well all game. That first inning his defensive just didn't help him out. That was kind of a wake up call for us. He threw strikes and kept us in the ball game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5999]]></link><description><![CDATA[All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10792]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17630]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am only one. But still, I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21282]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am only one. But still, I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46997]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One day we were brought into the world, knowing love only as being what we had for our toys, family, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15187]]></link><description><![CDATA[One day we were brought into the world, knowing love only as being what we had for our toys, family, and friends. Then, you meet someone who alters your conception of love, and you never know how you loved anything before because this kind of love is]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5263]]></link><description><![CDATA[The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There, Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world. Oh, eyes sublime  With tears and laughter for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55309]]></link><description><![CDATA[There, Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world. Oh, eyes sublime  With tears and laughter for all time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1836]]></link><description><![CDATA[An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know that birth takes a woman from one place in her life to another. The birth of a child ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43188]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know that birth takes a woman from one place in her life to another. The birth of a child certainly does change her viewpoint of herself and I believe her viewpoint of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10266]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As sure as ever God puts his children in the furnace, he will be in the furnace with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6980]]></link><description><![CDATA[As sure as ever God puts his children in the furnace, he will be in the furnace with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anon, out of the earth a fabric huge Rose, like an exhalation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3031]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anon, out of the earth a fabric huge Rose, like an exhalation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11515]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great while ago the world begun, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain;  But that's all one, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51530]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great while ago the world begun, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain;  But that's all one, our play is done,   And we'll strive to please you every day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand ofa neighbor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22690]]></link><description><![CDATA[The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand ofa neighbor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I liked (Davis) because he's very good with players and he's a good family person. A lot of people told ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32707]]></link><description><![CDATA[I liked (Davis) because he's very good with players and he's a good family person. A lot of people told me that he could leave, but I didn't think he would resign this year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The creative person wants to be a know -it -all. He wants to know about all kinds of things: ancient ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10592]]></link><description><![CDATA[The creative person wants to be a know -it -all. He wants to know about all kinds of things: ancient history, nineteenth -century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, flower arranging, and hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later or six months, or six years down the road. But he has faith that it will happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to havemore things, or more money, in order to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to havemore things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want to theywill be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must firstbe who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have whatyou want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One encounter with Jesus Christ is enough to change you, instantly, forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6969]]></link><description><![CDATA[One encounter with Jesus Christ is enough to change you, instantly, forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's had little flashes where he looks like a big-league pitcher again. But he knows his command is not where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30455]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's had little flashes where he looks like a big-league pitcher again. But he knows his command is not where he wants it to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome!  With eager thirst, by folly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25457]]></link><description><![CDATA[London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome!  With eager thirst, by folly or by fate,   Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Trojans lost the war because they fell for a really dumb trick. hey, there's a gigantic wooden horse outside ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15775]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Trojans lost the war because they fell for a really dumb trick. hey, there's a gigantic wooden horse outside and all the Greeks have left. Let's bring it inside! Not a formula for long-term survival. Now if they had formed a task force to study the Trojan Horse and report back to a committee, everyone wouldn't have been massacred.. Who says middle management is useless?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've had enough success for two lifetimes, my success is talent put together with hard work and luck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39416]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've had enough success for two lifetimes, my success is talent put together with hard work and luck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a tainted wether of the flock, Meetest for death: the weakest kind of fruit Drops earliest to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55602]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a tainted wether of the flock, Meetest for death: the weakest kind of fruit Drops earliest to the ground. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26339]]></link><description><![CDATA[An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kelly has everything we look for in a defensive lineman. He has great natural use of hands, he has very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kelly has everything we look for in a defensive lineman. He has great natural use of hands, he has very good initial quickness and very good feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main storm dynamics are here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32496]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main storm dynamics are here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14830]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have Dick to thank for adding the word 'regionalism' to our vocabulary. During his 12-year tenure with the Chamber, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33473]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have Dick to thank for adding the word 'regionalism' to our vocabulary. During his 12-year tenure with the Chamber, he has been a powerful voice for regional cooperation and collaboration with outstanding results. His accomplishments are numerous, but this will almost certainly be his lasting legacy to our region.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63875]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.   - Ralph Waldo ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.   - Ralph Waldo Emerson,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concentrated political power is the most dangerous thing on earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concentrated political power is the most dangerous thing on earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is research, but a blind date with knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9430]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is research, but a blind date with knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our life's a flying shadow, God's the pole, The index pointing at Him is our soul;  Death the horizon, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our life's a flying shadow, God's the pole, The index pointing at Him is our soul;  Death the horizon, when our sun is set,   Which will through Christ a resurrection get.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58308</guid></item></channel></rss>