<?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[Obscurity and competence: That is the life that is worth living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obscurity and competence: That is the life that is worth living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4143]]></link><description><![CDATA[For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're more concerned with the closed areas within the perimeter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29377]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're more concerned with the closed areas within the perimeter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whom has not the inspiring bowl made eloquent? [Lat., Foecundi calices quem non fecere disertum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whom has not the inspiring bowl made eloquent? [Lat., Foecundi calices quem non fecere disertum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better three hours too soon than a minute too late. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've legged you up on winners - do you want me to leg you up now? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33389]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've legged you up on winners - do you want me to leg you up now?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the highly competitive consumer electronics industry, and particularly the rising digital television market, it is critical for a company ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42640]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the highly competitive consumer electronics industry, and particularly the rising digital television market, it is critical for a company to get product to market quickly. At the same time, companies must uniquely differentiate consumer electronic products in the highly competitive marketplace. Streamlining the development process and reducing the cost of bringing high quality products to market is essential to the future success of leading CE manufacturers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Culture is one thing and varnish is another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Culture is one thing and varnish is another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60869]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Congresswoman Johnson recognizes the economic impact that D/FW Airport has in the North Texas region and the hundreds of thousands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Congresswoman Johnson recognizes the economic impact that D/FW Airport has in the North Texas region and the hundreds of thousands of jobs that are associated with it, ... The employees of American Airlines and American Eagle applaud and support her actions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Aziz's patrol continues on past one of the two main mosques in Karmah. Over the past few days, the Iraqi ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40055]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Aziz's patrol continues on past one of the two main mosques in Karmah. Over the past few days, the Iraqi soldiers have told the Marines what the imams have blasted over loudspeakersÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âcalls to rise up and attack the Americans. But, under strict orders, the Marines may not enter mosques or schools. They don't like it.] What I'd give to be able to look in there, ... You know they're hiding something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, how full of briers is this working-day world! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62143]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, how full of briers is this working-day world!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The crack-brained bobolink courts his crazy mate, Poised on a bulrush tipsy with his weight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4420]]></link><description><![CDATA[The crack-brained bobolink courts his crazy mate, Poised on a bulrush tipsy with his weight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Residents of low-lying areas, mobile homes and tents should reach higher ground now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Residents of low-lying areas, mobile homes and tents should reach higher ground now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24250]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins, justice ends?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52299]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17726]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24247]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll tell the names and sayings and the places of their birth, Of the seven great ancient sages so renowned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51889]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll tell the names and sayings and the places of their birth, Of the seven great ancient sages so renowned on Grecian earth,  The Lindian Cleobulus said, "The mean was still the best";   The Spartan Chilo said, "Know thyself," a heaven-born phrase confessed.    Corinthian Periander taught "Our anger to command,"     "Too much of nothing," Pittacus, from Mitylene's strand;      Athenian Solon this advised, "Look to the end of life,"       And Bias from Priene showed, "Bad men are the most rife";        Milesian Thales uregd that "None should e'er a surety be";         Few were there words, but if you look, you'll much in little see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actually, there have 788 graft cases in North Sumatra reported by people to the KPK, but the commission has decided ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Actually, there have 788 graft cases in North Sumatra reported by people to the KPK, but the commission has decided that only 163 of them should be followed up on. It really does mean there is a huge graft problem in North Sumatra.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modern man lives isolated in his artificial environment, not because the artificial is evil as such, but because of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modern man lives isolated in his artificial environment, not because the artificial is evil as such, but because of his lack of comprehension of the forces which make it work- of the principles which relate his gadgets to the forces of nature, to the universal order. It is not central heating which makes his existence 'unnatural,' but his refusal to take an interest in the principles behind it. By being entirely dependent on science, yet closing his mind to it, he leads the life of an urban barbarian.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18702]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aberdeen research revealed that a majority of enterprises cited customer data integration and quality issues as top challenges to effective ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aberdeen research revealed that a majority of enterprises cited customer data integration and quality issues as top challenges to effective customer intelligence management. According to our research, companies that exemplify Best-in-Class customer intelligence management practices reported greater than 20 percent year-over-year improvement in each of these key performance metrics: annual revenues, customer acquisition, and customer retention rates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Not to admire, is all the art I know (Plain truth, dear Murray, needs few flowers of speech)  To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/606]]></link><description><![CDATA["Not to admire, is all the art I know (Plain truth, dear Murray, needs few flowers of speech)  To make men happy, or to keep them so."   (So take it in the very words of Creech)    Thus Horace wrote we all know long ago;     And thus Pope quotes the precept to re-teach      From his translation; but had none admired,       Would Pope have sung, or Horace been inspired?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew as well as anybody what the endowment does for artists because I had been someone it had supported ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37185]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew as well as anybody what the endowment does for artists because I had been someone it had supported through not-for-profit theater.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The impression somehow prevails that the true believer, particularly the religious individual, is a humble person. The truth is that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52268]]></link><description><![CDATA[The impression somehow prevails that the true believer, particularly the religious individual, is a humble person. The truth is that the surrendering and humbling of the self breeds pride and arrogance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47014]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4953]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, so shall he drink, for George again. Yet he shall hear on't, and tightly, too, an' I live, i'faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3437]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But to go to school in a summer morn, Oh, it drives all joy away!  Under a cruel eye ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13391]]></link><description><![CDATA[But to go to school in a summer morn, Oh, it drives all joy away!  Under a cruel eye outworn,   The little ones spend the day--    In sighing and dismay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No. 18, that was the best hole I played all weekend. I had a good two-putter on it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37621]]></link><description><![CDATA[No. 18, that was the best hole I played all weekend. I had a good two-putter on it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The period which marked the enormous statistical success of the revival churches was also the period which saw membership standards ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6934]]></link><description><![CDATA[The period which marked the enormous statistical success of the revival churches was also the period which saw membership standards decline almost to the vanishing point. Today the [various denominations] don't even have enough authority to keep their members out of mob violence, let alone hold them to difficult standards of theological or ethical or moral excellence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man met a lad weeping. "What do you weep for?" he asked. "I am weeping for my sins," said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53618]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man met a lad weeping. "What do you weep for?" he asked. "I am weeping for my sins," said the lad. "You must have little to do," said the man. The next day, they met again. Once more the lad was weeping. "Why do you weep now?" asked the man. "I am weeping because I have nothing to eat," said the lad. "I thought it would come to that," said the man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11801]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2301]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hark, hark, the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus gins arise,  His steeds to water at those springs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hark, hark, the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus gins arise,  His steeds to water at those springs   On chaliced flowers that lies;    And winking Mary-buds begin     To ope their golden eyes.      With every thing that pretty is,       My lady sweet, arise,        Arise, arise!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love truth, but pardon error. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love truth, but pardon error.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60835]]></link><description><![CDATA[A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941   Formal prayer is a practical device, not a spiritual necessity. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941   Formal prayer is a practical device, not a spiritual necessity. It makes direct suggestions to our souls: it reminds us of realities which we always tend to forget.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was established originally as a living monument to the World War One veterans. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30193]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was established originally as a living monument to the World War One veterans.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus God's children are immorall whiles their Father hath anything for them to do on earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus God's children are immorall whiles their Father hath anything for them to do on earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was clear by then that he was with Rebecca and that they were a proper couple. I so wanted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40511]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was clear by then that he was with Rebecca and that they were a proper couple. I so wanted to turn my back on him but he always managed to win me over. I know now that I am weak-willed and that I should have moved on with my life but what can I say? He had such a strong hold over me, it was hard for me to deny him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The angel of the Family is Woman. Mother, wife, or sister, Woman is the caress of life, the soothing sweetness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63092]]></link><description><![CDATA[The angel of the Family is Woman. Mother, wife, or sister, Woman is the caress of life, the soothing sweetness of affection shed over its toils, a reflection for the individual of the loving providence which watches over Humanity. In her there is treasure enough of consoling tenderness to allay every pain. Moreover for every one of us she is the initiator of the future. The mother's first kiss teaches the child love; the first holy kiss of the woman he loves teaches man hope and faith in life; and love and faith create a desire for perfection and the power of reaching towards it step by step; create the future, in short, of which the living symbol is the child, link between us and the generations to come. Through her the Family, with its divine mystery of reproduction, points to Eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a promise delivered already broken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a promise delivered already broken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10918]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678  The soul which gives itself wholly and without reserve to God is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678  The soul which gives itself wholly and without reserve to God is filled with His own Peace; and inasmuch as we are prone to grow like that to which we are closely united, the closer we draw to our God, so much the stronger and more steadfast and more tranquil shall we become.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7821</guid></item></channel></rss>