<?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[Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born. Modesty died ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born. Modesty died when false modesty was born.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But neither bended knees, pure hands held up, Sad sighs, deep groans, nor silver-shedding tears,  Could penetrate her uncompassionate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51536]]></link><description><![CDATA[But neither bended knees, pure hands held up, Sad sighs, deep groans, nor silver-shedding tears,  Could penetrate her uncompassionate sire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My ankle was going toward the left and my foot was going toward the right. I was shaking, and they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39303]]></link><description><![CDATA[My ankle was going toward the left and my foot was going toward the right. I was shaking, and they kept covering my eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools. Wisdom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4182]]></link><description><![CDATA[The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools. Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is the leadership of the world-wide church in the hands of men and women who know how to lead others ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is the leadership of the world-wide church in the hands of men and women who know how to lead others one by one to Jesus Christ? We are so concerned with planning and administration that there is a danger lest we allow these things to serve as an excuse for not doing the one thing on which all else depends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I draw whatever hits me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42235]]></link><description><![CDATA[I draw whatever hits me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4162]]></link><description><![CDATA[One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. Betrayal, though ... betrayal is the willful slaughter of hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never, "for the sake of peace and quiet," deny your own experience or convictions ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never, "for the sake of peace and quiet," deny your own experience or convictions]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought it was the most exciting thing I had ever heard in my lifetime. I was blown away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38720]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought it was the most exciting thing I had ever heard in my lifetime. I was blown away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a very large hurricane, a very powerful hurricane. Wherever you have the eye of this system, you are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40857]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a very large hurricane, a very powerful hurricane. Wherever you have the eye of this system, you are going to have a potentially catastrophic disaster there. This is the worst-case scenario for a hurricane.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She knows omnipotence has heard her prayer And cries, "It shall be done--sometimes, somewhere." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48047]]></link><description><![CDATA[She knows omnipotence has heard her prayer And cries, "It shall be done--sometimes, somewhere."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66393]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come close to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20517]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come close to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wall must get the weather stain Before they grow the ivy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wall must get the weather stain Before they grow the ivy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember the silence, the eerie sound of silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28879]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember the silence, the eerie sound of silence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All I wanted was a refund, but instead we got treated like criminals. They made my wife cry on her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36173]]></link><description><![CDATA[All I wanted was a refund, but instead we got treated like criminals. They made my wife cry on her honeymoon, and that's priceless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thousand leagues of ocean, a company of kings, You came across the watching world to show how heroes die. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57126]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thousand leagues of ocean, a company of kings, You came across the watching world to show how heroes die.  When the splendour of your story   Builds the halo of its glory,    'Twill belt the earth like Saturn's rings     And diadem the sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each being is sacred -- meaning that each has inherent value that cannot be ranked in a hierarchy or compared ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each being is sacred -- meaning that each has inherent value that cannot be ranked in a hierarchy or compared to the value of another being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no more seditious rallies going on now, and many of the coup plotters have been arrested, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35871]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no more seditious rallies going on now, and many of the coup plotters have been arrested,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53746]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Network security and the ability to operate in the face of disaster are some of the top concerns for integrated ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Network security and the ability to operate in the face of disaster are some of the top concerns for integrated communications providers. In today's converged telecom market, security solutions are more critical than ever before and Telecom NEXT is the only place to see the latest advances in network security.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people would rather get even instead of get ahead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people would rather get even instead of get ahead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/529]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A client twixt his attorney and counselor is like a goose twixt two foxes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8880]]></link><description><![CDATA[A client twixt his attorney and counselor is like a goose twixt two foxes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Houses are built to live in and not to look on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Houses are built to live in and not to look on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57004]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as something going on in a small minority, perpetually beleaguered in a few walled towns. Now and then the horde of barbarians outside breaks through, and we have an armed effort to halt the process. That is, we have a Reformation, a French Revolution, a war for democracy, a Great Awakening. The minority is decimated and driven to cover. But a few survive- and a few are enough to carry on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes the most urgent thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes the most urgent thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea is to bring a higher quality, better-looking product to the consumer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33464]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea is to bring a higher quality, better-looking product to the consumer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He always seemed to try to impress you by show. He didn't seem to have a lot of depth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42542]]></link><description><![CDATA[He always seemed to try to impress you by show. He didn't seem to have a lot of depth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dealing with adversity is something you just can't coach or teach. You just have to deal with it. In a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dealing with adversity is something you just can't coach or teach. You just have to deal with it. In a way, it's been nice because we're all learning and growing. Once we got past the stage where we were making errors, we started to understand what we are capable of doing. There's always a chance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people are brave, others are just too stupid to be afraid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people are brave, others are just too stupid to be afraid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Laborer and the SnakeA snake, having made his hole close to the porch of a cottage, inflicted a mortal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1552]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Laborer and the SnakeA snake, having made his hole close to the porch of a cottage, inflicted a mortal bite on the Cottager's infant son. Grieving over his loss, the Father resolved to kill the Snake. The next day, when it came out of its hole for food, he took up his axe, but by swinging too hastily, missed its head and cut off only the end of its tail. After some time the Cottager, afraid that the Snake would bite him also, endeavored to make peace, and placed some bread and salt in the hole. The Snake, slightly hissing, said: There can henceforth be no peace between us; for whenever I see you I shall remember the loss of my tail, and whenever you see me you will be thinking of the death of your son. No one truly forgets injuries in the presence of him who caused the injury.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27639]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27639</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><item><title><![CDATA[Men are like steel: when they lose their temper, they lose their worth. -Chuck Norris. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are like steel: when they lose their temper, they lose their worth. -Chuck Norris.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm really grateful we were able to get the grant. We couldn't have done it without that. There' s no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35600]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm really grateful we were able to get the grant. We couldn't have done it without that. There' s no way. We would have had to replace the infields with the same type of stuff we have now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fundamentalist religion is the most pervasive vision of central planning, though many fundamentalists may oppose human central planning as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fundamentalist religion is the most pervasive vision of central planning, though many fundamentalists may oppose human central planning as a usurpation or "playing God." This is consistent with the fundamentalist vision of an unconstrained God and a highly constrained man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was pretty fun. I'd try it again definitely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41828]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was pretty fun. I'd try it again definitely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cleon hath ten thousand acres,-- Ne'er a one have I;  Cleon dwelleth in a place,--   In a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cleon hath ten thousand acres,-- Ne'er a one have I;  Cleon dwelleth in a place,--   In a cottage I.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Should banded unions persecute Opinions, and induce a time  When single thought is civil crime,   And individual ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Should banded unions persecute Opinions, and induce a time  When single thought is civil crime,   And individual freedom mute,    . . . .     Then waft me from the harbour's mouth,      Wild wind, I seek a warmer sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9782]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I said to the Nightingale: "Hail, all hail!  Pierce with thy trill the dark,   Like a glittering ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44555]]></link><description><![CDATA[I said to the Nightingale: "Hail, all hail!  Pierce with thy trill the dark,   Like a glittering music-spark,    When the earth grows pale and dumb."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a balance in the house. It's not like 24-7. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40564]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a balance in the house. It's not like 24-7.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40564</guid></item></channel></rss>