<?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[After doing this, going away, trying other things and working on other shows, this character, and working within Days of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42229]]></link><description><![CDATA[After doing this, going away, trying other things and working on other shows, this character, and working within Days of Our Lives, has been one of the most enjoyable experiences in my career.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is a strange and wonderful place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40525]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is a strange and wonderful place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The state] doesn't have any evidence of harassment. It would be a travesty if the court allowed the charges to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39664]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The state] doesn't have any evidence of harassment. It would be a travesty if the court allowed the charges to go forward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not replacing DIY with DIFM by any means. What we're doing is broadening our DIY model to include the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31545]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not replacing DIY with DIFM by any means. What we're doing is broadening our DIY model to include the do-it-for-me category.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14140]]></link><description><![CDATA[The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even a s Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13638]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even a s Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In (the) tsunami-affected region, we are trying to do that, to say 'This is an opportunity to go about things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41517]]></link><description><![CDATA[In (the) tsunami-affected region, we are trying to do that, to say 'This is an opportunity to go about things the right way and take the time to do it right,']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that preaches war is the devil's chaplain ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48065]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that preaches war is the devil's chaplain]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate"; and the water, put nought in in malice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25155]]></link><description><![CDATA[As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate"; and the water, put nought in in malice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15909]]></link><description><![CDATA[More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many times a day I realize how much my own life is built upon the labors of my fellowmen, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many times a day I realize how much my own life is built upon the labors of my fellowmen, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552   Every wise workman takes his tools away from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552   Every wise workman takes his tools away from the work from time to time that they may be ground and sharpened; so does the only-wise Jehovah take his ministers oftentimes away into darkness and loneliness and trouble, that he may sharpen and prepare them for harder work in his service.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To get through the hardest journey we need take only one step at a time, but we must keep on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23369]]></link><description><![CDATA[To get through the hardest journey we need take only one step at a time, but we must keep on stepping]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32660]]></link><description><![CDATA[O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Willibrord of York, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia, 739  Other sins find their vent in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Willibrord of York, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia, 739  Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil deeds, whereas pride lies in wait for good deeds, to destroy them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52205]]></link><description><![CDATA[Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor. Suit the action to the word, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies:  Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26374]]></link><description><![CDATA[With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies:  Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries,   Bidding her earliest child arise;    March!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They certainly give very strange names to diseases. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43662]]></link><description><![CDATA[They certainly give very strange names to diseases.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The look of the movie has a kind a muted tone to it at first, and then we introduce color ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33330]]></link><description><![CDATA[The look of the movie has a kind a muted tone to it at first, and then we introduce color to it as we go along.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every rumor is believed against the unfortunate. [Lat., Ad calamitatem quilibet rumor valet.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every rumor is believed against the unfortunate. [Lat., Ad calamitatem quilibet rumor valet.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3055]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9375]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24610]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Press bravely onward!--not in vain Your generous trust in human kind;  The good which bloodshed could not gain  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Press bravely onward!--not in vain Your generous trust in human kind;  The good which bloodshed could not gain   Your peaceful zeal shall find.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Visa Waiver Program is one that we've been working on even prior to the bombings in London, taking more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37276]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Visa Waiver Program is one that we've been working on even prior to the bombings in London, taking more precautions as far as making sure there are secured documents for all these people coming through the Visa Waiver Program.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold has worked down from Alexander's time ... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gold has worked down from Alexander's time ... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The grief of an heir is only masked laughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51634]]></link><description><![CDATA[The grief of an heir is only masked laughter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imitation is the sincerest of flattery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With what presumption have we dared to voice "Thank You for home (although we hold the deed), Our acre, trees, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6800]]></link><description><![CDATA[With what presumption have we dared to voice "Thank You for home (although we hold the deed), Our acre, trees, and flowers (ours by choice), Our faithful dog and cat (though it's agreed No one can own the latter), each good book (A gift, or purchased), all else we foresaw That we should cherish, and have made to look Ours by possession (nine points of the law)." With what presumption have we called them ours, And even felt unselfish when we shared them--  When, if the truth be known, they have been Yours From the beginning, Lord! You have prepared them For us to borrow, using as our own: So thank You, Father, for this generous loan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I seriously doubt if we will ever have another war. This is probably the very last one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60634]]></link><description><![CDATA[I seriously doubt if we will ever have another war. This is probably the very last one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Force is the antithesis of freedom, but force must be used, if only to defend against other force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Force is the antithesis of freedom, but force must be used, if only to defend against other force.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13767]]></link><description><![CDATA[A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29676]]></link><description><![CDATA[When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The situation here involves bringing people together. The program has been down basketball-wise for a long time. The easy way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36069]]></link><description><![CDATA[The situation here involves bringing people together. The program has been down basketball-wise for a long time. The easy way to break the ice is with a sense of humor. Not making light of it, but using it to break the ice. Personality and having a sense of humor helps generate people's interest and puts them at a sense of ease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wonders of each region view, From frozen Lapland to Peru. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59623]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wonders of each region view, From frozen Lapland to Peru.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A favor tardily bestowed is no favor; for a favor quickly granted is a more agreeable favor. [Lat., Gratia, quae ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15479]]></link><description><![CDATA[A favor tardily bestowed is no favor; for a favor quickly granted is a more agreeable favor. [Lat., Gratia, quae tarda est, ingrata est: gratia namque  Cum fieri properat, gratia grata magis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They called for Kenny-poo. They called and called, but he didn't answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42035]]></link><description><![CDATA[They called for Kenny-poo. They called and called, but he didn't answer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2391]]></link><description><![CDATA[My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Goblin was a new band and this was their first major work. The oldest of them was only 18. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Goblin was a new band and this was their first major work. The oldest of them was only 18. They were very talented and I wanted to give them a break.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you blame others, you give up your power to change. -Dr. Robert Anthony. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5571]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you blame others, you give up your power to change. -Dr. Robert Anthony.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12540</guid></item></channel></rss>