<?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[Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54664]]></link><description><![CDATA[The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41518]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24748]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brooke might tell a different story, but I've always loved the water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brooke might tell a different story, but I've always loved the water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Franklin Roosevelt stands like a sharply formed rock in a shapeless sea.spoken on Book TV by a Jackson biographer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Franklin Roosevelt stands like a sharply formed rock in a shapeless sea.spoken on Book TV by a Jackson biographer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Variable pay is designed to help employees concentrate on company goals and objectives, while eliminating 'entitlement' issues that often arise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Variable pay is designed to help employees concentrate on company goals and objectives, while eliminating 'entitlement' issues that often arise with a holiday bonus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've got to bounce back. This game does not end our season. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37290]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've got to bounce back. This game does not end our season.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important thing that Western North Carolina can do is you've got to get some winners, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37860]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important thing that Western North Carolina can do is you've got to get some winners,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles de Foucauld, Hermit, Servant of the Poor, 1916   Faith is to the soul what life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles de Foucauld, Hermit, Servant of the Poor, 1916   Faith is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith what breath is to the body. How a person can live and not breathe is past my comprehension, and how a person can believe and not pray is past my comprehension too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43383]]></link><description><![CDATA[People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had mutual respect for each other, even as we both planned each other's murder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12399]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65970]]></link><description><![CDATA[But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be the widow of a hero than he wife of a coward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61564]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be the widow of a hero than he wife of a coward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had to either prevent or slow down their counters by keeping our front court active and making them play ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30492]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had to either prevent or slow down their counters by keeping our front court active and making them play defense. We knew they were going to run, and we were going to stick with our defensive plays. But the breakdowns added up and they cost us the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They simply enjoyed every day together. The most special times for them were in the morning, sitting in their den, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38817]]></link><description><![CDATA[They simply enjoyed every day together. The most special times for them were in the morning, sitting in their den, drinking coffee and enjoying the peace of the day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61083]]></link><description><![CDATA[I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I could have better spared a better man. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55900]]></link><description><![CDATA[I could have better spared a better man. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever claims that economic competition represents 'survival of the fittest' in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever claims that economic competition represents 'survival of the fittest' in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a down economy, our survey has found executives always pushing profitability a few years out, and this year is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30626]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a down economy, our survey has found executives always pushing profitability a few years out, and this year is no different. But what the executives are telling us this year is that they have seen the worst and that the industry is poised for a rebound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deloitte's sessions at Telecom NEXT really zero in on the issues of concern for companies trying to win in an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deloitte's sessions at Telecom NEXT really zero in on the issues of concern for companies trying to win in an evolving IP world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And took for truth the test of ridicule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54224]]></link><description><![CDATA[And took for truth the test of ridicule.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once I guessed right, And I got credit by't;  Thrice I guessed wrong,   And I kept my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once I guessed right, And I got credit by't;  Thrice I guessed wrong,   And I kept my credit on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750 Jesus, priceless treasure, source of purest pleasure  Truest friend to me; Long ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750 Jesus, priceless treasure, source of purest pleasure  Truest friend to me; Long my heart has panted, till it well-nigh fainted,  Thirsting after Thee. Thine I am, O spotless Lamb; I will suffer naught to hide Thee,  Ask for naught beside Thee. In Thine arm I rest me; foes who would molest me  Cannot reach me here. Though the earth be shaking, every heart be quaking,  God dispels our fear. Sin and hell in conflict fell With their heaviest storms assail us:  Jesus will not fail us. Hence, all thoughts of sadness! For the Lord of gladness,  Jesus, enters in: Those who love the Father, though the storms may gather,  Still have peace within; Yes, whate'er we here must bear, Still in Thee lies purest pleasure,  Jesus, priceless treasure!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25722]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many who are living far below their possibilities becausethey are continually handing over their individualities to others. Do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21542]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many who are living far below their possibilities becausethey are continually handing over their individualities to others. Do youwant to be a power in the world? Then be yourself. Be true to the highestwithin your soul and then allow yourself to be governed by no customs orconventionalities or arbitrary man-made rules that are not founded onprinciple.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Searching for what I need, and I don't even know precisely what that is, I was going from a man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Searching for what I need, and I don't even know precisely what that is, I was going from a man to a man, and I saw that all of them together have less than me who has nothing, and that I left to each of them a bit of that what I don't have and I've been searching for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15423]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a heart with room for every joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19028]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a heart with room for every joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mistrust the man who finds everything good; the man who finds everything evil; and still more the man who is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mistrust the man who finds everything good; the man who finds everything evil; and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Several hard-core Star Wars fans who had tickets for the first showing actually said that when the movie finally began, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Several hard-core Star Wars fans who had tickets for the first showing actually said that when the movie finally began, they started crying. Mainly because they realized that it's 22 years later, and they still haven't lost their virginity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13941]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if he ignores these two great truths of population zoology: (1) no two individuals are alike, and (2) both environment and genetic endowment make a contribution to nearly every trait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're paid by companies. Having said that, I think the Internet is the best thing that ever happened for consumer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37003]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're paid by companies. Having said that, I think the Internet is the best thing that ever happened for consumer affairs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12364]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Energy is going to catch the attention of the market. It's probably a force that's not going to leave because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Energy is going to catch the attention of the market. It's probably a force that's not going to leave because we're in transition from concern about oil to concerns about natural gas and how that will affect consumer spending as we head into winter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Family... a group experience of love and support. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Family... a group experience of love and support.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2069]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20092]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20092</guid></item></channel></rss>