<?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[I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25177]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by reading novels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peter was dull; he was at first Dull;--Oh, so dull--so very dull!  Whether he talked, wrote, or rehearsed--  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peter was dull; he was at first Dull;--Oh, so dull--so very dull!  Whether he talked, wrote, or rehearsed--   Still with his dulness was he cursed--    Dull--beyond all conception--dull.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O great corrector of enormous times, Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider  Of dusty and old titles, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61131]]></link><description><![CDATA[O great corrector of enormous times, Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider  Of dusty and old titles, that healest with blood   The earth when it is sick, and curest the world    O' the pleurisy of people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But given the initiatives we've committed ourselves to, it's going to be very difficult, even if we get more money ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38475]]></link><description><![CDATA[But given the initiatives we've committed ourselves to, it's going to be very difficult, even if we get more money than the county initially earmarked. The initial signs show we are getting a positive response. We'll see what the upshot is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42734]]></link><description><![CDATA[A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12222]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not going to get involved in the contractual details. I don't want to do that. One of the reasons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30670]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not going to get involved in the contractual details. I don't want to do that. One of the reasons I came into the job was to get away from that sort of thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30670</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[Just as women are afraid of receiving, men are afraid of giving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as women are afraid of receiving, men are afraid of giving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, I know not what I ought to ask of you.  O, Father, give to your child what he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, I know not what I ought to ask of you.  O, Father, give to your child what he himself knows not how to ask.  Teach me to pray. Pray yourself in me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7663]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kinsman, a friend, or whom you intreate, take not to serve you, if you will be served neately. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49043]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kinsman, a friend, or whom you intreate, take not to serve you, if you will be served neately.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Halfe the world knowes not how the other halfe lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Halfe the world knowes not how the other halfe lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5879]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most men had rather say a smart thing than do a good one. John P. Kotter, Leading Change -Josh Billings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most men had rather say a smart thing than do a good one. John P. Kotter, Leading Change -Josh Billings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way we imagine ourselves to appear to another person is an essential element in our conception of ourselves. In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14594]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way we imagine ourselves to appear to another person is an essential element in our conception of ourselves. In other words, I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work. To live at this time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work. To live at this time is an inestimable privilege, and a sacred obligation devolves upon you to make right use of your opportunities. Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something worthwhile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone that's ever had their kitchen done over knows that it never never gets done as soon as you wish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone that's ever had their kitchen done over knows that it never never gets done as soon as you wish it would.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2269]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are my hobby, if I ever got married I'd have to give it up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are my hobby, if I ever got married I'd have to give it up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dost thou love hawking? Thou hast hawks will soar Above the morning lark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dost thou love hawking? Thou hast hawks will soar Above the morning lark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Probably the toughest time in anyone's life is when you have to murder a loved one because they're the devil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Probably the toughest time in anyone's life is when you have to murder a loved one because they're the devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This I ever held worse that all certitude,  To know not what the worst ahead might be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60021]]></link><description><![CDATA[This I ever held worse that all certitude,  To know not what the worst ahead might be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of a certain income can indulge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of a certain income can indulge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass and the Horse AN ASS besought a Horse to spare him a small portion of his feed. Yes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1503]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass and the Horse AN ASS besought a Horse to spare him a small portion of his feed. Yes, said the Horse; if any remains out of what I am noweating I will give it you for the sake of my own superiordignity, and if you will come when I reach my own stall in theevening, I will give you a little sack full of barley. The Assreplied, Thank you. But I can't think that you, who refuse me alittle matter now. will by and by confer on me a greaterbenefit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just because a dress is red satin doesn't mean it will come off easily. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just because a dress is red satin doesn't mean it will come off easily.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When his wife asked him to change clothes to meet the German Ambassador: "If they want to see me, here ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2728]]></link><description><![CDATA[When his wife asked him to change clothes to meet the German Ambassador: "If they want to see me, here I am. If they want to see my clothes, open my closet and show them my suits."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm just disappointed in the whole match. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32185]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm just disappointed in the whole match.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to block everything out and be extremely focused and be relaxed and mellow too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16300]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to block everything out and be extremely focused and be relaxed and mellow too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The New Testament is uniformly consistent in seeing something as being wrong in man himself... These analyses of man are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6758]]></link><description><![CDATA[The New Testament is uniformly consistent in seeing something as being wrong in man himself... These analyses of man are based on man's responsibility for his evil actions; they are not saying that it is simply his motions that have gone astray: it is man's will that is the central problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But every fool describes, in these bright days, His wondrous journey to some foreign court,  And spawns his quarto, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3519]]></link><description><![CDATA[But every fool describes, in these bright days, His wondrous journey to some foreign court,  And spawns his quarto, and demands your praise,--   Death to his publisher, to him 'tis sport.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has a why can endure any how ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52731]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has a why can endure any how]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10002]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Thou wert not, Solomon! in all thy glory Array'd," the lilies cry, "in robes like ours;  How vain your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25095]]></link><description><![CDATA["Thou wert not, Solomon! in all thy glory Array'd," the lilies cry, "in robes like ours;  How vain your grandeur! Ah, how transitory   Are human flowers!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we actually came out harder, but our shots just weren't dropping as they could have. Even though they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30491]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we actually came out harder, but our shots just weren't dropping as they could have. Even though they took that lead, we were in control the entire game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And behold there was a very stately palace before him, the name of which was Beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3839]]></link><description><![CDATA[And behold there was a very stately palace before him, the name of which was Beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20103]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can miss one player, but it's tough when you're missing four. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42692]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can miss one player, but it's tough when you're missing four.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What silly people wits are! [Lat., Que les gens d'esprit sont betes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61807]]></link><description><![CDATA[What silly people wits are! [Lat., Que les gens d'esprit sont betes.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am really looking forward to returning to Dubai as always. The audiences are always receptive to my music and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30823]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am really looking forward to returning to Dubai as always. The audiences are always receptive to my music and Dubai as a city never ceases to amaze me ... it is constantly changing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stronger than thunder's winged force All-powerful gold can speed its course;  Through watchful guards its passage make,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stronger than thunder's winged force All-powerful gold can speed its course;  Through watchful guards its passage make,   And loves through solid walls to break.    [Lat., Aurum per medios ire satellites     Et perrumpere amat saxa potentius      Ictu fulmineo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself the most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20925]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself the most.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over the past decade, Afghanistan has been the principal source of international terrorism, religious extremism, international drug trafficking and organized ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over the past decade, Afghanistan has been the principal source of international terrorism, religious extremism, international drug trafficking and organized crime in this region,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let firm, well hammer'd soles protect thy feet Through freezing snows, and rains, and soaking sleet;  Should the big ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let firm, well hammer'd soles protect thy feet Through freezing snows, and rains, and soaking sleet;  Should the big last extend the shoe too wide,   Each stone will wrench the unwary step aside;    The sudden turn may stretch the swelling vein,     The cracking joint unhinge, or ankle sprain;      And when too short the modish shoes are worn,       You'll judge the seasons by your shooting corn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56207</guid></item></channel></rss>