<?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 foule Toade hath a faire stone in his head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50605]]></link><description><![CDATA[The foule Toade hath a faire stone in his head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three million and one hundred thousand Japanese people died in the war, and many foreigners were also victims. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three million and one hundred thousand Japanese people died in the war, and many foreigners were also victims.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All have been accounted for ... No gun battle took place, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34274]]></link><description><![CDATA[All have been accounted for ... No gun battle took place,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I woke up this morning -- I was glad it was this morning. When you have a game like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40025]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I woke up this morning -- I was glad it was this morning. When you have a game like that, you just pick up and move on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the 1930s people went to see films not just to be entertained or to escape the dreariness of their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43364]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the 1930s people went to see films not just to be entertained or to escape the dreariness of their workaday lives but to gain an education, to see the world, to learn table manners and interior decoration, how to dress, kiss, to laugh and cry, how to react to tragedy and happiness, how to be brave, evil and good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's beautiful when two strangers become best friends, it's terribly depressing when two best friends become strangers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63105]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's beautiful when two strangers become best friends, it's terribly depressing when two best friends become strangers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One great use of words is to hide our thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62024]]></link><description><![CDATA[One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who, or why, or which, or what, Is the Akhond of Swat? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who, or why, or which, or what, Is the Akhond of Swat?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The players and parents really rallied around him this season. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36894]]></link><description><![CDATA[The players and parents really rallied around him this season.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For we walk by faith, not by sight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14961]]></link><description><![CDATA[For we walk by faith, not by sight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who say they "sleep like a baby" haven't got one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who say they "sleep like a baby" haven't got one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So much promise stretches before us. Americans have always reached for the impossible, looked to the next horizon and asked, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2454]]></link><description><![CDATA[So much promise stretches before us. Americans have always reached for the impossible, looked to the next horizon and asked, "What if?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/78]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/78</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is a journey...not a destination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22334]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is a journey...not a destination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think someone should have had the decency to tell me the luncheon was free. To make someone run out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11743]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think someone should have had the decency to tell me the luncheon was free. To make someone run out with potato salad in his hand, pretending he's throwing up, is not what I call hospitality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These gems have life in them: their colors speak, Say what words fail of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23259]]></link><description><![CDATA[These gems have life in them: their colors speak, Say what words fail of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46606]]></link><description><![CDATA[My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us footprints on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a pleasure, sure, In being mad, which none but madmen know! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21010]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a pleasure, sure, In being mad, which none but madmen know!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22853]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if you can't top it, laugh at it; if you can't laugh at it, it's probably deserved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22853</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[One of the lessons of history is that 'nothing' is often a good thing to do and always a clever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19508]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the lessons of history is that 'nothing' is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62896]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The situation was great, because it is not far from where I grew up. And it was a program that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36640]]></link><description><![CDATA[The situation was great, because it is not far from where I grew up. And it was a program that I would be proud to be associated with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the mouse laughs at the cat, there's a hole nearby. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4473]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the mouse laughs at the cat, there's a hole nearby.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's part of our culture and firm belief that smart, talented local bankers make the best decisions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41946]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's part of our culture and firm belief that smart, talented local bankers make the best decisions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on forgiveness: When on my day of life the night is falling,   And, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on forgiveness: When on my day of life the night is falling,   And, in the winds from unsunned spaces blown, I hear far voices out of darkness calling   My feet to paths unknown, Thou who hast made my home of life so pleasant   Leave not its tenant when its walls decay; O Love Divine, O Helper ever-present,   Be Thou my strength and stay! Be near me when all else is from me drifting;   Earth, sky, home's pictures, days of shade and shine, And kindly faces to my own uplifting   The love that answers mine. I have but Thee, my Father! let Thy spirit   Be with me then to comfort and uphold; No gate of pearl, no branch of palm I merit,   Nor street of shining gold. Suffice it if -- my good and ill unreckoned,   And both forgiven through Thy abounding grace - I find myself by hands familiar beckoned   Unto my fitting place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47831]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who wait could face long lines at licensing outlets on the coast,. Nobody wants to be standing in line ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who wait could face long lines at licensing outlets on the coast,. Nobody wants to be standing in line to buy a license at low tide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best ad is a good product. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52663]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best ad is a good product.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's something in't More than my father's skill, which was the great'st  Of his profession, that his good receipt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26021]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's something in't More than my father's skill, which was the great'st  Of his profession, that his good receipt   Shall for my legacy be sanctified    By th' luckiest stars in heaven; and would your honor     But give me leave to thy success, I'd venture      The well-lost life of mine on his grace's cure       By such a day and hour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  Prayer opens the understanding to the brightness of Divine Light, and the will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  Prayer opens the understanding to the brightness of Divine Light, and the will to the warmth of Heavenly Love -- nothing can so effectually purify the mind from its many ignorances, or the will from its perverse affections. It is as a healing water which causes the roots of our good desires to send forth fresh shoots, which washes away the soul's imperfections, and allays the thirst of passion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation Which rises from the cup of mad impiety,  And go, get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation Which rises from the cup of mad impiety,  And go, get drunk with that divine intoxication   Which is more sober far than all sobriety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft has a tremendous amount of patience, which can be inspiring or distressing, depending on your point of view, ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Microsoft has a tremendous amount of patience, which can be inspiring or distressing, depending on your point of view, ... they will have waited so long for so little and have been willing to spend a long, long time in the red.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and almost never leave. Our lives are measured by those.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one thinkes his sacke heaviest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49223]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one thinkes his sacke heaviest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Which of these two is the greater fool? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Which of these two is the greater fool?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22586]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. He can only get a vision of the unselfish forces in the world by appealing to them, and every appeal is a call to arms. If he fights he must fight, not one man, but a conspiracy. He is always at war with a civilization. On his side is proverbial philosophy, a galaxy of invisible saints and sages, and the half-developed consciousness and professions of everybody. Against him is the world, and every selfish passion in his own heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But he, whose humours spurn law's awful yoke, Must herd with those, by whom law's bonds are broke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51083]]></link><description><![CDATA[But he, whose humours spurn law's awful yoke, Must herd with those, by whom law's bonds are broke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was fascinating for me to drive with Lies through the country roads. I also got to know Vienna again ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40644]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was fascinating for me to drive with Lies through the country roads. I also got to know Vienna again by driving through my home town by car.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been in this business for years, and this has been the hardest three days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32491]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been in this business for years, and this has been the hardest three days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32491</guid></item></channel></rss>