<?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[The laughter of adults was always very different from the laughter of children. The former indicated a recognition of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24200]]></link><description><![CDATA[The laughter of adults was always very different from the laughter of children. The former indicated a recognition of the familiar, but in children it came from the shock of the new.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who interrupts the course of his spiritual exercises and prayer is like a man who allows a bird to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57417]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who interrupts the course of his spiritual exercises and prayer is like a man who allows a bird to escape from his hand; he can hardly catch it again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures. [Fr., Le fruit du travail est le plus doux des ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62154]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures. [Fr., Le fruit du travail est le plus doux des plaisirs.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man opens the car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27235]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man opens the car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19824]]></link><description><![CDATA[A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To fly from, need not be to hate, makind: All are not fit with them to stir and toil, Nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25511]]></link><description><![CDATA[To fly from, need not be to hate, makind: All are not fit with them to stir and toil, Nor is it discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain. - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, 1818.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60673]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't want to feed him fastballs. I threw him some breaking balls off the plate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30707]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't want to feed him fastballs. I threw him some breaking balls off the plate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48013]]></link><description><![CDATA[A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool,  And to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14149]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool,  And to the false, error and truth alike,   Error is worse than ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd like to see it convince others to do it like we do. It was the most amazing thing I've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29973]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd like to see it convince others to do it like we do. It was the most amazing thing I've ever been a part of in my whole life. I think everyone should feel that way about prom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In some cases suicidal girls were stripped naked and isolated for extended time periods in windowless empty 'dark rooms' with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28782]]></link><description><![CDATA[In some cases suicidal girls were stripped naked and isolated for extended time periods in windowless empty 'dark rooms' with only a drain in the cement floor to serve as a toilet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9534]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In our study, the women who were not previously exercising but then did what was out of the ordinary for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31788]]></link><description><![CDATA[In our study, the women who were not previously exercising but then did what was out of the ordinary for them, acute bursts of exercise, were at a slightly elevated risk of having sudden cardiac death while they exercised.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No scoundrel is so stupid as to not find a reason for his vile conduct. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3996]]></link><description><![CDATA[No scoundrel is so stupid as to not find a reason for his vile conduct.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43961]]></link><description><![CDATA[I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20308]]></link><description><![CDATA[All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Christian marriage is [not] one with no problems or even a marriage with fewer problems. (It may well mean ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6538]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Christian marriage is [not] one with no problems or even a marriage with fewer problems. (It may well mean more problems.) But it does mean a life in which two people are able to accept each other and love each other in the midst of problems and fears. It means a marriage in which selfish people can accept selfish people without constantly trying to change them -- and even accept themselves, because they realize personally that they have been accepted by Christ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know with our heads that the Bible and the Gospel have a bearing -- sooner or later -- upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6568]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know with our heads that the Bible and the Gospel have a bearing -- sooner or later -- upon every issue in life, every problem, every relationship, every practice. But is it not true that in our hearts we are afraid that the full-orbed, unfiltered revelation of God will disturb some custom, some privilege, some status by which we benefit in society, occupation, or government? And knowing that we are profiting by the blood, sweat, and tears of the many, we feel wrath rising in us whenever it is proposed that religion touches the thing in question.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is our second ceremony by the beach. It's the closest we could get to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40315]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is our second ceremony by the beach. It's the closest we could get to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46304]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a certain extent, to communicate his misery. He frightens other people as much as they frighten him. He acts like a damper upon the whole room, and the most jovial spirits become, in his presence, depressed and nervous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But what avail'd this temperance, not complete Against another object more enticing? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50650]]></link><description><![CDATA[But what avail'd this temperance, not complete Against another object more enticing?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43595]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People mistake their limitations for high standards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15433]]></link><description><![CDATA[People mistake their limitations for high standards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. -Anne Morrow Lindbergh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. -Anne Morrow Lindbergh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lend me thy pen To write a word  In the moonlight.   Pierrot, my friend!    ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lend me thy pen To write a word  In the moonlight.   Pierrot, my friend!    My candle's out,     I've no more fire;--      For love of God       Open thy door!        [Fr., Au clair de la lune         Mon ami Pierrot,          Prete moi ta plume           Pour ecrire un mot;            Ma chandelle est morte,             Je n'ai plus de feu,              Ouvre moi ta porte,               Pour l'amour de Dieu.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although it is unlikely that the Iranian nuclear dispute will lead to a curtailment of oil shipments, there is clearly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although it is unlikely that the Iranian nuclear dispute will lead to a curtailment of oil shipments, there is clearly a large premium on oil prices due to the ongoing tensions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a terrible tragedy, but I was pleased being out of town and having these discussions (of retirement) going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37450]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a terrible tragedy, but I was pleased being out of town and having these discussions (of retirement) going on to see all these good things that the company and my team did without me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15080]]></link><description><![CDATA[The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Except I be by Sylvia in the night, There is no music in the nightingale. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Except I be by Sylvia in the night, There is no music in the nightingale. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lookit, I've done it their way this far and now it's my turn. I'm my own handler. Any questions? Ask ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lookit, I've done it their way this far and now it's my turn. I'm my own handler. Any questions? Ask me... There's not going to be any more handler stories because I'm the handler... I'm Doctor Spin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . th' approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light,  When falling dews with spangles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59930]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . th' approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light,  When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade,   And the low sun had lengthen'd ev'ry shade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is the key to paradise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is the key to paradise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't wait. The time will never be just right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't wait. The time will never be just right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They all have wonderful personalities and a wonderful work ethic. Their parents are hard-working people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38028]]></link><description><![CDATA[They all have wonderful personalities and a wonderful work ethic. Their parents are hard-working people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23636]]></link><description><![CDATA[The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on. -King Henry VI. Part III. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55992]]></link><description><![CDATA[The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on. -King Henry VI. Part III. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That would make this particularly disheartening. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32298]]></link><description><![CDATA[That would make this particularly disheartening.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sharks have been swimming the oceans unchallenged for thousands of years; chances are, the species that roams corporate waters will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sharks have been swimming the oceans unchallenged for thousands of years; chances are, the species that roams corporate waters will prove just as hardy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A difference, to be a difference, must make a difference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22624]]></link><description><![CDATA[A difference, to be a difference, must make a difference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never be afraid to sit awhile and think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64322</guid></item></channel></rss>